Cleburne's Brigade

Hardee's Corps

C.S.

Cleburne's (2d) Brigade,

15th Arkansas, skirmishers,

Bate's 2d Tenn.,24th Tenn.,Hill's 5th Tenn.,6th Miss.,23rd Tenn.

Hardee's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi

This brigade, with its regiments in order from left to right as above, attacked the enemy at ...

Bouquet’s Trail, 1764 / Port Washington Road

Bouquet’s Trail, 1764. Unsatisfied by the treaty that ended the French and Indian War, Ottawa chief Pontiac led a confederacy of Native American tribes in attacks against the British frontier forts during 1763, a campaign known as “Pontiac’s Conspiracy.”

In October ...

Hampton Is Burned

"… a bright light over by the bay."

When Capt. Jefferson C. Phillips’s Confederate troops set the town of Hampton on fire on the evening of August 7, 1861, a house that stood on this King Street site was one of ...

Battle of Fort Slongo

Battle of

Fort Slongo

took place near this site

on Oct. 3, 1781. American

forces defeated British

forces holding Fort Slongo.

Donated by Ft. Salonga Assoc.

Marker is on Fort Salonga Road (New York Route 25A) east of Bread and Cheese Hollow Road, on the right when ...

“…The most dreadful scene I have ever beheld.”

“The Shrieks, Groans, imprecations, deprecations, The Clashing of Swords and bayonets &c&c&c, was more expressive of Horror than the Thunder of the artillery &e on the Day of action.”Lieutenant Martin Hunter

You are now facing west toward the direction ...

Flack Block

City of Vancouver Heritage Building

Thomas Flack commissioned this landmark commercial building in 1898, following his return from a prosperous venture to the Klondike gold fields. Completed in 1900, it framed one of the city's most prominent intersections, facing the first ...

Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike

Rich Mountain Battlefield

This turnpike connected the upper Shenandoah Valley with the Ohio River by 1847. Designed by master engineer Claudius Crozet, it was a major rock-paved roadway with toll stations. The road you are traveling follows the original turnpike route. ...

The Bayland Guards

On April 27, 1861, Dr. Ashbel Smith organized a group of volunteers from Bayland (now Baytown) and Cedar Bayou in Harris County, and Barbers Hill in Chambers County. The group, known as the Bayland Guards, drilled on Smith’s Evergreen Plantation ...

Bayland Orphanage

(Site 1/2 mi. SE)

Established in 1866 by Texas Confederate veterans for children of deceased soldiers. Had capacity for 250. Rev. Henry F. Gillette was first superintendent. C. S. A. Col. Ashbel Smith, diplomat, soldier and statesman, was staff doctor. ...

Battle of Bladensburg

This is the site of the Battle of Bladensburg which took place in the War of 1812. Commodore Joshua Barney and his 500 Marines were greatly outnumbered by the British Expeditionary Force of 4,500 trained regulars. The battle raged for ...