Battle of Nashville

Confederate Defenses

Stewart's Corps, Army of Tennessee, held this part of Hood's original line, extending east about 1500 yards, and west and south about 1 mile to Hillsboro Pike. After the turning of his left, about 4:00 P.M., Stewart established a ...

Schofield's Jump-Off Line

Dec. 15, 1864

The Federal defensive line ran northeast and southwest through here. It was garrisoned by Schofield's Corps on arrival here after the Battle of Franklin, Dec 2, and later became a line of departure for the advance into support ...

The Bloody Wheatfield

"It was here that the crash came. A storm of lead swept through our ranks like hail."

Pvt. James Houghton, USA

4th Michigan Infantry

In the summer of 1863, the golden wheat grew tall here. But at 4:30 p.m. on July 2, the ...

Camp of 18th Wisconsin Infantry

Miller's Brigade - Prentiss' Division

U. S.

Camp of

18th Wisconsin Infantry,

Miller's (2d) Brig., Prentiss' (6th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

First position in line of battle April 6, 1862, was in front of this camp on color line.

Marker can be reached from Eastern Corinth ...

Camp of 16th Wisconsin Infantry

Peabody's Brigade - Prentiss' Division

U. S.

Camp of

16th Wisconsin Infantry,

Peabody's (1st) Brig., Prentiss' (6th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

First position in line of battle April 6, 1862, was 80 rods in front of this camp.

Marker is at the intersection of Peabody Road ...

Millen Fountain

This fountain

was originally in the lobby

of the Estelle Hotel.

The hotel was constructed in 1912

and was located on

Gray Street in Millen, Georgia.

Through the generosity

of several local citizens, the

Jenkins County Development Authority

was able to obtain this fountain

for the Olde Freight Depot ...

Battle of Front Royal

May 23, 1862

Confederate Army of 16,000 under General Stonewall Jackson overwhelmed a Federal outpost of 1,000 under Colonel John R. Kenly. The Confederates approached Front Royal undetected from southwest on the afternoon of May 23. Spy Belle Boyd gave the ...

Harry Flood Byrd

State Senator 1916-26

Governor of Virginia 1926-30

United States Senator 1933-65

The General Assembly of Virginia on March 9, 1974, authorized this memorial to Harry Flood Byrd, of Winchester, Virginia, declaring that "The sum total of this one life has had a larger ...

Marsh F. Smith House

This Foursquare house was built in 1908 by the Belford Lumber Co. for Marsh Fawn Smith (1875-1961), operator of a local cottonseed oil mill, and his wife Jessie (Cooper) (1879-1963). Smith served as mayor of Georgetown from 1926 to 1946, ...

Ohio Company of Associates

On this site the United States in Congress Assembled on the 13th day of July in the year of Our Lord 1787 and of their sovereignty and independence the twelfth enacted an ordinance for the government of the territory northwest ...