3d Ohio Infantry

John Beatty's Brigade - Davis' Division

3d Ohio Infantry.

John Beatty’s Brig., Davis Div., 14th Corps.

Capt. Leroy S. Bell.

Nov. 25, 1863.This regiment was detached from its brigade during the Battle of Chattanooga, and stationed at Kelley’s Ferry on the Tennessee River west ...

The Third Battle of Winchester

(Left Side): The Third Battle of Winchester - September 19, 1864

Bloodiest Battle of the Shenandoah Valley

Gen. Jubal Early assuming that Gen. Phil Sheridan was yet another cautious Union commander, divided his roughly 14,000 troops on a wide front north from ...

Prisoners of War

Prior to World War II, few Americans had ever been held as prisoners of war on foreign soil. But the surrender of U.S. forces in the Phillippines in the spring of 1942 suddenly swelled the number of POWs into the ...

Fairchild War Monument

In memory of those who

made the supreme sacrifice

and all those who served

in the great wars that

liberty may not perish.

Marker can be reached from East Main Street west of Camp Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Third Battle of Winchester

The First Woods - A Perfect Slaughterhouse

As Confederates drove Union Gen. Grover's 2nd Division back across the fields in front of you, the 1st Division of the Nineteenth Army Corps was moving up to the edge of the First Woods ...

54th Ohio Infantry

Stuart's Brigade - Sherman's Division

U. S.

54th Ohio Infantry,

Stuart's (2d) Brig., Sherman's (5th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment formed here at 10 a.m. April 6, 1862 with two companies beyond Locust Grove Creek as skirmishers.

The regiment was attacked by Chalmers' brigade ...

Nashville's First Radio Station

June 1922, Boy Scout John H. DeWitt, Jr., started Nashville's first radio station (WDAA) on the Ward-Belmont Campus. Assisted by music teacher G. S. deLuca, he broadcast Enrico Caruso records to the opening of the River and Rail Terminal on ...

Fort Putnam

Fort Putnam was designed to protect other fortifications at West Point from overland attack . . . not to fire on enemy ships sailing up the Hudson River; thus, it was a key fortification in West Point’s defensive zone. ...

The Third Battle of Winchester

The Middle Field - Bloodiest Encounter in the Shenandoah Valley

You are standing in the Middle Field - perhaps the bloodiest place in the Shenandoah Valley. After hours of preparation, Sheridan's Army of the Shenandoah was ready to advance against the ...

Spenger’s Fish Grotto

c. 1890

Clam chowder, baked beans and 10¢ beer – these and fish dinners drew crowds to fabled Spenger’s. It all began in the 1860s when Johann Spenger from Bavaria started fishing in the Bay. The gabled structure he built here ...