Shaver's Brigade

Hardee's Corps

C. S.

Shaver's (1st) Brigade,

7th Ark., 2d Ark., 6th Ark., 3d Confederate,

Hardee's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This brigade came into position here, its right near Eastern Corinth Road, about 9.30 a.m., April 6, 1862. It soon fell back about 300 yards ...

Ebenezer Capps' Store

1837

The store of Ebenezer Capps was located just north of this site at the northeast corner of Main and Fourth streets.

The location of Main street is not the same today as when Lincoln was here. Vandalia existed long before the ...

Churchyard to Battleground

For the first two days of May 1863, the boom of distant guns rattled the windows of Salem Church. Eight miles to the west, at Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee’s main Confederate army battered a Union army nearly twice its size. ...

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) ...

Bethany Baptist Church

SIDE 1:

Bethany Baptist Church was chartered on Sept. 8, 1828. The six charter members were James Garrett, Levin Collins, Uriah Jones, Lucy Garrett, Catherine Simmons and Mary Jones. The first pastor, John W. Cooper, served from 1828 to 1847. In ...

Lambrecht's Artesian Well

An oil well drilled at this site in 1912 yielded not oil, but free-flowing artesian water. The following year, German native Nick Lambrecht (1855-1920) purchased the property. Lambrecht served as justice of the peace and mayor during Humble's oil boom ...

War in the Backyard

At the beginning of the Civil War, the third generation of the Scots-Irish Glass family lived at Rose Hill. The household consisted of Thomas Glass (age 67), and his wife Margaret (age 51), his son William (age 25) and fifteen ...

Mildred L. Terry Branch Library

The first public library for African Americans in segregated Columbus, the Colored/Fourth Avenue Library, opened on January 5, 1953. The existence of

this facility resulted from covenants and restrictions barring the use of the city’s new public library by African Americans. ...

Wood's Brigade

Hardee's Corps

C. S.

Wood's (3d) Brigade,

9th and 8th Ark., 27th Tenn., 16th Ala., 44th and 55th Tenn., 3d Miss.,

Hardee's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

From this position, Wood's Brigade, with its regiments in order from left to right as above, charged and captured ...

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 ...