Commanding Officer’s Quarters

The rooms on the left end of this building stood as a separate structure during the 1814 period. this was the residence of Major George Armistead, commanding officer and “Hero of Fort McHenry.”

It was Armistead who directed the successful ...

"Cuba" The Official Newspaper of the Cuban Revolutionary Party

1887 1898

On this site was published the historic newspaper "Cuba," dedicated to the cause of Cuban Independence.

"Cuba" was the successor of "El Critico De Ybor City." Its editor was Ramon Rivero y Rivero, a great revolutionist.

In 1891 ...

Chartered In 1798

Brush Run Seceder Church

Brush Run Seceder Church James Duncan first pastor, held services in a 5x 12 tent, later a log cabin. In 1811 a two acre cemetery created. The church relocated in 1848 as U.P. church near Darlington, with ...

Jackson’s Headquarters

I am quite comfortable.

Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, commanding the Shenandoah Valley military district, lived in this house from mid-November 1861 through early March 1862. Here he planned a winter campaign against Union forces at Romney and Bath (present-day ...

The Hon. Archibald Stuart

This Stone covers the mortal remains of the Hon. Archibald Stuart. He died on the 11th day of July (d1832) aged 75 years 3 m. and 22 days. Merits the tribute of grateful remembrance having performed well his part in ...

Jackson’s Headquarters

This house was used by Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, then commanding the Valley District, Department of Northern Virginia, as his official headquarters from November 1861, to March, 1862, when he left Winchester to begin his famous Valley Campaign.

Marker is ...

Battery D Fifth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery D Fifth U.S. Artillery

Six Rifled 10 pounders

Lieut. Charles E. Hazlett commanding

July 2 Marched to the left of the Union Line about 4.30 p.m. and in rear of Brig. General J. ...

Lt. Collier’s Earthworks

From the time of Virginia’s secession from the Union on May 23, 1861, until just before the Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861, the Confederate government in Richmond recognized the importance of defending the Lower Shenandoah Valley. When Confederate ...

Martin's Surrender

Gen. James G. Martin,

surrendered the army of

Western North Carolina,

the last Confederate

force in the state, in

Waynesville, May 6, 1865.

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 23) near Gruder Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Wartime Manassas

Confederates Withdraw to Richmond

During the Civil War, two railroads—the Manassas Gap and the Orange and Alexandria—intersected here. Manassas Junction was strategically important to both the Union and the Confederacy as a supply depot and for military transportation. Two of the ...