4th Tennessee Infantry

Stewart's Brigade - Clark's Division - Polk's Corps

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4th Tennessee Infantry,

Stewart's (2d) Brig., Clark's (1st) Div., Polk's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This regiment charged McAllister's battery at 11 a.m. April 6, 1862 capturing one gun and ...

Vail Homestead Farm

Stephen Vail, owner of Speedwell Iron Works, built machinery for S.S. Savannah, first trans-Atlantic steamship, in 1819. His son, Alfred Vail, and Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated electromagnetic telegraph in 1838.National Register of Historic Places

New Jersey Register of Historic Places

Morris ...

Fight for the High Ground

The Shenandoah Valley's strategic location and rich farmland caused it to be the scene of two major Civil War campaigns that comprised hundreds of battles and skirmishes.

Many Valley farms, like Rose Hill, became battlefields or campgrounds unexpectedly and often repeatedly.

By ...

How To See the Battlefield

On March 23, 1862, the opening conflict of the famous Valley Campaign began on the adjoining Glass and Pritchard farms. You are visiting the Glass Farm called Rose Hill. The neighboring Pritchard Farm is 1½ miles to the southeast (right) ...

Radcliff School

In the fall of 1914 Radcliff School was organized in Allen Temple A.M.E. Church. At that time it was known as Wynnton Hill School. J. L. Bond was principal and the first head teacher was Mrs. S. A. Cody. When ...

Our Lady of Mercy Chapel

1854

Carpenter Gothic structure was mission parish of Madison and Morristown until 1883. Oldest standing Roman Catholic chapel in Morris County. Home parish of Father Cornelius Clifford.

New Jersey Register of Historic Places

Marker is on Whippany Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

337th Army Air Field Base

Venice Army Air Field opened during WWII, on July 7, 1942. In June of 1943 the first combat aircraft operated from the field. By March 1944 the base was moved to this location. In all nine groups were trained for ...

“The Folly”

A dwelling has existed at 527 First Avenue since 1831 when Alfred Iverson wed Julia Forsyth, daughter of Georgia Governor John Forsyth. Elected to Congress in 1846, Iverson served in the Senate until Georgia seceded from the Union. Two sons ...

Montgomery City California

In October of 1863, rich silver discoveries led to the formation of Montgomery Mining District and Montgomery City which, although short lived, supported a newspaper, The Pioneer. There were no continuous veins found and mining operations soon ceased. Cloudbursts have ...

A Home for Champions

Many visitors to this barn had little idea that a world-famous writer lived nearby, for they had come here to find out about raising dairy goats. Internationally known for breeding world-record milk producers, Mrs. Sandburg managed a herd of over ...