One-Sided Slaughter

Fate of the 5th New York

The 5th N.Y. Infantry thought they had gotten off easy that day. The trees screened them from Confederate artillery fire, and most of the fighting was a mile off to the right near Deep Cut.

Suddenly ...

Second Army Corps

U.S.A.

Second Army Corps.

Major General E.V. Sumner, Commanding.

(September 15-16, 1862.)

Richardson's Division of the Second Corps, in close pursuit of the Army of Northern Virginia, in its retreat from South Mountain, passed through Boonsboro and Keedysville on the morning of September 15, ...

Hillcrest Cemetery

Located within the original 1850 town plat of Canton, this cemetery has served citizens of this area for well over a century. The oldest documented burial is that of Ann Calhoon (1807-1860). Among those buried here in marked and unmarked ...

Fort Ferree - Overland Inn - Indian Spring

Fort Ferree

built by Gen. Harrison's Army, 1812.

Overland Inn

1814 until 1846, on site Elks Lodge.

Indian Spring

used by Indians 1730 to 1843.

Col. Crawford's Army drank at Spring June 4, 1782.

Charles Dickens stopped at Inn and Spring, 1842.

Scioto Trail led past the Indian ...

Early Settlers / Potatoe Ferry

Early Settlers

Among the first settlers of Williamsburg County, members of the Witherspoon family sailed from Belfast to Charleston in 1734, arriving about December 1. With a year's provisions, they embarked on an open-boat voyage. Traveling up the Black River, the ...

Hiram Williams Pursell

1837 - 1918

Born Nockamixon Township, served 6th and 104th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861. Regiment flag bearer, Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862, wounded twice, faced advancing enemy while Union Army in retreat, saved another regiment color from capture after bearer ...

Ohio in the Civil War / Defending Ohio

The Ohio National Guard and the 37th (Buckeye) Infantry Division

Ohio in the Civil War. With five army camps in Columbus, Capitol Square was a military crossroads from 1861 to 1865. Ohio troops were mustered, paid, and on some occasions garrisoned ...

World War II

On the morning of December 7, 1941, only 6,814 sailors were in training at Great Lakes. Two hours after the attack began, Captain Spaulding, the Public Works Officer, authorized a large construction program. 13 prime contractors, 27 architectural firms, and ...

Northfield Soldiers Memorial

[ south side ]

"That the generations to come

might know them."

Lincoln

Lieut. Horace Hubbard

Co. H. 2. C.H.A.

killed Bat. Winchester Va.

Sept. 19, 1864 Æ. 33.

Hiram T. Cooley

Co. D. 2. C.H.A.

killed Bat. Winchester Va.

Sept. 19, 1864 Æ. ...

Mesier Park

Pre-revolutionary house. Home of Mesier family from 1777 to 1890. Acquired by villate 1891.

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street (New York Route 9D) and South Avenue (New York Route 9D), on the right when traveling west ...