Massacre of the French

Matanzas Inlet

In 1565 some 300 French castaways, under Jean Ribault, were massacred here by Spaniards, crushing their attempt to occupy Florida. The French ships, sailing from Fort Caroline to attack St. Augustine, were driven ashore by a storm. At this ...

3rd Massachusetts Battery

5th Corps Artillery

3rd Mass. Battery

5th Corps Art'y.

July 2, 1863.

Marker is at the intersection of Wheatfield Road and Crawford Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Wheatfield Road.

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Battery E, 5th Massachusetts Light Artillery

First Brigade - Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

First Brigade Artillery Reserve

Massachusetts Light Artillery

5th Battery E

Six 3 inch Rifles

Captain Charles A. Phillips Commanding

July 2 Withdrew at 5 p.m. from the field near the Peach Orchard and went into Battery here.

July 3 ...

Sach's Covered Bridge

The Sachs Bridge, built in 1852 by David S. Stoner, is one of the few remaining bridges built using Connecticut architect Ithiel Town's lattice system of support trusses. Part of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began its retreat to ...

USS Sacramento (PG-19)

“The Galloping Ghost of the China Coast”

As part of our nation’s maritime history, USS Sacramento steamed more than one-half million miles during her proud service in the United States Navy.

She logged 64,000 miles convoying 483 ships through submarine-infested European waters ...

U.S.S. Sacramento 1914 – 1942

The Galloping Ghost of the China Coast

Brought into service in 1914 to join the United States “Great White Fleet”, dubbed such for the sparkling white paint used on naval ships at the time, she was in service 28 years and ...

U.S.S. Sacramento 1863 – 1867

A wooden sloop, 229 feet long and with a crew of 138, she was commissioned for blockade service during the Civil War. First, she contained Confederate ships off the coast of North Carolina and later Atlantic ports in Europe. In ...

Sacramento’s Maritime Heritage

The second world war found river transportation companies continuing service on the Sacramento River while under the restrictions of wartime conditions. In the 1950’s, river commerce consisted of the transportation of barges of bulk grain, petroleum, and crushed rock between ...

Sacred to the Memory of the Soldiers

Sacred

to the memory

of the

Soldiers

of the War of

1861 to 1865.

Marker can be reached from 4th Avenue 0.3 miles north of County Highway C, on the right when traveling north.

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19th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division

The 19th Reg't Mass. Vol. Infty

of the

3rd Brigade - 2nd Division - 2nd Army Corps

stood here

on the afternoon of July 3rd 1863

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

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