Albany - Capital of New York 200 Years

In Honor of the 200th Anniversary of the

1797 City of Albany 1997

Serving as the Capital City of the State of New York

For twenty years, after the establishment of the State of new York in 1777, the State Legislature moved annually ...

150th New York Infantry

2nd Brigade - 1st Division

(Front):150th

New York Infantry

2nd Brigade (Lockwood's).

1st Division.

12th Corps.

July 2nd & 3rd. 1863.

This regiment defended

these works on July 3rd

from 6.30 to 9 a.m. and

from 10 a.m. to 12 m. and

captured 200 prisoners

The Dutchess County Regt.

(Back):Casualties.

Killed

Corp. John Van. Alstryne ...

Sons of Charleston Confederate Monument

(North face)

In Memory

of the sons of Charleston

who

fell around her walls;

who

sleep on many battlefields

in

Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania,

Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia,

Louisiana, Mississippi, and

North Carolina

and who

lie in distant graves around

their Northern prisons.

— ...

Campaign of Second Manassas

Here Lee and Longstreet, on their way to join Jackson, then at Bristoe Station, camped on August 26, 1862.

Marker is on Leeds Manor Road (County Route 688) south of John Barton Payne Road (County Route 732), on the left when ...

First National Correctional Congress / Declaration of Principles

Side A: First National Correctional Congress

On this site in October, 1870 a group of enlightened individuals dedicated to the reformation and improvement of penal systems met. This first Congress of the National Prison Association, now known as the ...

John Harris, Founder of Harrisburg

On October 25,1755 John Harris, Founder of Harrisburg, and a party of 40 men who came up the river to investigate the (John) Penn's Creek Massacre, were ambushed by a party of Indians near the mouth of this creek at ...

28th Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):28th Penna. Infantry

1st Brig. 2nd Div. 12th Corps.

July 3rd 1863.

(Back):

Mustered in June 28th 1861.

Re-enlisted

December 22d 1863.

Mustered out

July 18th 1865.

Arrived at 3 p.m. July 1st and went into position on the ridge north of Little Round Top at ...

Unknown Confederate Dead

Here sleep, known but to God, 250 Confederate and two Federal soldiers, most of whom died of wounds, disease and sickness in the Confederate hospitals located here - 1862-1864.

These men were wounded in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, ...

The Statue of Liberty Division

World War II

The 77th Infantry Division trained at Fort Jackson in 1942 and fought on Guam, Leyte, Kerama Retto, Ie Shima and Okinawa. Returning to Cebu, they took 6,500 Japanese prisoners. They then returned to occupy Hokkaido, Japan where the ...

Confederate Dead

In this cemetery are buried about 300 unknown Confederate soldiers who died of wounds or disease in the several Confederate hospitals located in Cassville. These hospitals operated from late 1861 until May 18, 1864, then moved south out of the ...