Sara Amy Leach, senior historian at the National Cemetery Administration, found that Reddy Gray, who also went by Redmond, Redman, or Reverdy, was born in 1843 to Lydia and John Talbott Gray in Baltimore County. He was enslaved by Thomas Cradock…

Like many Baltimore County plantations in the mid-19th century, the grounds of the Hilton estate were well acquainted with the sound of beating horse hooves. In 1842, future U.S. Fourth District Court Judge, John Glenn, bought Hilton to raise…