Orders Road School / The Orders Family

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Orders Road SchoolEducational standards for rural children did not exist during the early 1800s, but by the 1870s most states had enacted compulsory education laws. In rural areas, township school districts built schools like this one and assessed local ...

Fredericksburg Campaign

December 13, 1862. Here, on the wood’s edge facing the fields of the Lansdowne Valley, Gen. George Pickett’s 9,000 men, including soldiers from Fredericksburg, held a vital part of Lee’s line. The enemy did not attack Pickett’s Division and the ...

Fort Hood

In November 1862, Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood constructed this fort a half mile northeast on the Rappahannock River in an effort to prevent Union gunboats from ascending the river toward Fredericksburg. Four rifled guns of Capt. ...

Congressional Medal of Honor Monument

This monument is presented to the city of Vancouver, Washington by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, in recognition of the spirit and sacrifice shown by the valiant Medal of Honor recipients now at rest in the Vancouver Barracks Cemetery.

First ...

The Legend of Avelino Martinez

Avelino Martinez was of Mexican, Indian and Chinese descent, four feet-four inches tall and thirteen years of age when he came with a group of drovers to the United States from Sonora, Mexico, searching for his father. He worked as ...

The Iron Brigade / The Twenty-Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry

The Iron Brigade

The Iron Brigade became one of the most celebrated military units on the

American Civil War (1861–1865). Wearing distinctive black hats, they were

easily recognised by friend and foe alike. The five volunteer regiments in

the brigade ...

Governor's Foot Guard

Two Hundreth Anniversary

To commemorate the

Two Hundreth Anniversary Celebration

Of the First Company Governor's

Foot Guard, founded in 1771.

The oldest military unit in continuous

service in the United States.

Participating were the Centennial

Legion of Historic Military Commands

of the thirteen original colonies.

The Grenadier Guards Band, London, ...

Fredericksburg Campaign

December 13, 1862. Here in the Lansdowne Valley Longstreet’s right flank joined with “Stonewall” Jackson’s left. Confederate infantry was deployed on the valley floor and cannon rimmed the hills behind, forming a deep pocket in the Confederate line. During mid-afternoon, ...

The First Meeting of Washington and Rochambeau

This tablet commemorates the historic first meeting of General George Washington and General Comte de Rochambeau, commander-in-chief of the French army in America, which took place September 20, 1780.

On that occasion and in a subsequent meeting the following May, ...

Battle of Bloody Marsh

We are resolved not to suffer

defeat - we will rather die like

Leonidas and his Spartans - if we

can but protect Georgia and

Carolina and the rest of the Americans

from desolation Oglethorpe

Erected on the battlefield of

Bloody Marsh - by the Georgia

Society of ...