The Third Battle of Winchester

The Attack of the Eighth Corps

"The order was to walk fast, keep silent, until within about one hundred yards of the guns, and then with a yell to charge at full speed."

Col. Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S.A.

At noon on September ...

World’s First Mailbox

Città di Castel Gandolfo

Il 23 Novembre 1820

Il Consiglio Comunale di Castel Gandolfo

Composto da

Paolo Mallozzi - Luogotenente

Marco Troiani - Capo Pretore

Candido Marazzi - Pretore

Filippo Albenzi - Pretore

E dai consiglieri

Stefano Evangelisti · Giuseppe Togni · Giuseppe Bernini

Giuseppe di Lucia · Francesco Marroni ...

Dr. Seth French (1824~1896)

Born in Potsdam, New York on May 2, 1824, French served as a Surgeon with the 21st and 35th New York Regiments, New York Volunteers during the early years of the Civil War. In 1863 he moved to Eau ...

1st and 3rd Mississippi Infantry Regiments (USA)

Mississippi African American Monument

Commemorating the

service of the

1st and 3rd Mississippi

Infantry Regiments,

African Descent and

all Mississippians of

African descent

who participated in

the Vicksburg

Campaign.

Marker is on Grant Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Reedy River Factory

1820

The South preferred to send its raw cotton to New England for spinning and weaving when Vardry McBee and his Mill Right John Adams built this Dam at Conestee to power a paper wood and cotton mill.

The mill supplied the ...

The Third Battle of Winchester

Confederate Horse Artillery

"A more murderous fire I never witnessed..."Col. Thomas Munford, C.S.A.

In an effort to protect the Confederate left flank, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee placed a detachment of cavalry and six pieces of horse artillery, lighter cannons made specifically for horse ...

CDR "Snuffy" Smith

Navy Light Attack Aircraft A-7 Corsair II

(First Plaque):

Navy pilots typically had their names painted on the side and just below the cockpit of one of the squadron aircraft. Most also had "Call Signs." Some of which because the nickname of ...

Robert Anderson Memorial Fountain

The idea for a memorial fountain to honor General Robert Anderson, the American Revolutionary hero for whom our county is named, was part of an overall plan to beautify downtown Anderson. Through the efforts of Mrs. Rufus Fant and the ...

A Panoramic View of American History

We want our many visitors to realize that they are looking at one of the single most important broad overviews of American history anywhere in the country! What you see before you is the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk ...

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 ...