In the graveyard adjoining Mt. Zion Old School Baptist Church, Alfred R. Waud of Harpers Illustrated Weekly dug the grave on June 23, 1863, for his friend Lynde Walter Buckingham, chief cavalry correspondent for the New York Herald. Buckingham had spent June 21 covering what became one of the largest cavalry battles in U.S. history in and around Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville, and while at the front with Union General Judson Kilpatrick he was later overtaken on his way to Washington by Confederate partisan fighters under Major John Singleton Mosby's command, causing his horse to dash down a steep hill and throw him violently to the ground. He later died of skull injuries in a makeshift Union Army hospital within the church. After burying Buckingham, Waud rode on to Gettysburg, where on July 2 and 3 he sketched fighting scenes that continued to shape Americans' views of that battle. A couple of days after the burial, Union Captain Webster, an old friend, came to Mt. Zion with an escort and ambulance to disinter the body and send Buckingham's remains to his family.