The Iron Brigade

The Iron Brigade became one of the most celebrated units of the Civil War (1861-1865). Of its five regiments, three came from Wisconsin: the Second, Sixth, and Seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. (The other two regiments were the Nineteenth Indiana and ...

Edward S. Bragg

Born in New York in 1827, Edward S. Bragg was admitted to the bar in 1848 and moved to Fond du Lac in 1850, where he practiced law and played an active role in politics. When the Civil War broke ...

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 ...

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 ...

Granger Brethren Church

Czech Protestant immigrants began settling in this area in the early 1880s. Many of them established family farms in the rich farmland surrounding Granger.

The Czechs first organized worship service was held in a schoolhouse east of town in the early ...

Prescott Public Library

Prescott's modern public library was dedicated on May 18, 1975. However, the history of a public library in Prescott goes back to August 1895, when seven local ladies founded the Women's Club of Prescott (now the Monday Club). They gathered ...

John Brophy

(1883-1963)

The American labor leader lived here in Nanty Glo. Brophy was president of District 2, United Mine Workers of America, 1916-1926; he gained national prominence for his "Miner's Program," calling for a shorter work week, nationalization of the mines, and ...

William Beans Cabin

About 1½ miles to the east on a knoll beside Boone’s Creek, a monument marks the spot near where William Bean, first permanent white settler in Tennessee, built his cabin in 1769. The site was previously used by Daniel Boone ...