Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps.

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Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps.

Brig. Gen. George S. Greene, Commanding.

September 17, 1862.

Greene's Division crossed the Antietam, by the Upper Bridge, about midnight of the 16th and bivouacked on the Hoffman Farm.

On the morning of the 17th, it followed Williams' Division, ...

Fort Craig

Fort Craig, which replaced Fort Conrad located about nine miles north, was established to control Indian raids along the Jornada del Muerto. Troops from Fort Craig were defeated by Confederate forces at the Battle of Valverde, 7 miles distant, in ...

The First Campaign

Civil War Begins in the Mountains of (West) Virginia

West Virginia, born of a nation divided, was the setting for the first campaign of America’s Civil War. Although still part of Virginia in1861, many citizens of the west remained loyal ...

First Army Corps

Seymour's Brigade, Meade's Division

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First Army Corps.

Seymour's Brigade, Meade's Division.

Brig. Gen. Truman Seymour, Commanding.

Organization.

1st Penn. Reserve Infantry,

2nd Penn. Reserve Infantry,

5th Penn. Reserve Infantry,

6th Penn. Reserve Infantry,

13th Penn. Reserve Infantry,

September 17, 1862.

Seymour's Brigade became engaged at daybreak, and advanced on either side ...

Defenses of Richmond

Nearby stood one of the outer Confederate defensive lines that guarded Richmond during the Civil War (1861-1865). A series of earthworks and fortifications was built to protect the city and to allow the outnumbered Confederates to make maximum use of ...

Fuldner Mortuary

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Fairfield Institute / Kelly Miller

[Fairfield Institute Side]

This grade school and normal institute for blacks was founded in 1869 during Reconstruction by the Northern Presbyterian Church. The Reverend Willard Richardson was principal. In 1880, one-hundred of its students were studying to be teachers and twenty ...

Confederate Cemetery

Buried here are nineteen men (out of perhaps 100) killed during the last two days of war in Virginia. These men were at first buried where they died – at hospitals or in farm fields and woodlots around Appomattox Court ...

Remnants of the University of Nashville

These Ionic column capitals once adorned the Cumberland College building constructed in 1806 just south of downtown Nashville. Originally founded in December 1785 as Davidson Academy (the nation's 15th college), Cumberland's charter was altered in 1826, changing its name to ...

Franklin Square

“The Grove”

Site for this public park was given to the town of Smithville, which was named in his honor, by Governor Benjamin Smith. His legacy provided that land in this square be used for educational, fraternal, religious and recreational purposes.

Th ...