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May 29: Edward Brush Fowler, who led the 14th Brooklyn at the Railroad Cut during the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, was born on this date in 1837.

May 28: On this date in 1862, the trustees of Green-Wood Cemetery approved the establishment of a Soldiers’ Lot for the free burial of veterans who died during the Civil War in battle or from disease.

May 27: “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” record album is released on this date in 1963; its cover is a photograph of Dylan and Susan Elizabeth Rotolo, his girlfriend at the time, who inspired two classic Dylan songs: “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” and “Tomorrow is a Long Time.” She was cremated at Green-Wood in 2011.

May 26: Anne Hall, painter of miniature portraits, was born on this date in 1792.

May 25: On this date in 1950, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, chief engineer Ole Singstad, opened.

May 24: On this date in 1883, President William Kingsley and the Brooklyn Bridge’s other trustees opened it to the public.

May 23: Lewis Tappan, abolitionist who became heavily involved with the Amistad case, arranging for John Quincy Adams to represent the Africans, reporting on the case in The Emancipator, arranging for them to be taught English by Yale students, and making arrangements for their return to their native land, was born on this date in 1788.

May 22: On this date in 1934, David Wesson, a food chemist who in 1899 produced the first commercial all-vegetable shortenings from cottonseeds, died.

May 21: On this date in 1862, Edwin Christy, founder of Christy’s Minstrels, a black-face musical troupe, committed suicide by leaping to his death.

May 20: Colonel Abraham Vosburgh, while serving in the Civil War commanding the 71st New York National Guard, died of disease on this date in 1861; President Abraham Lincoln laid a wreath on Vosburgh’s casket a few days later.