Chew’s Ashby Artillery

Captain R. Preston Chew organized Chew’s Ashby Artillery, the first “horse artillery” in the Confederate army, in November 1861. He named it for Colonel Turner Ashby. Chew’s battery bosted a 3 in ordinance rifle, a 12-pounder smoothbore howitzer, and an ...

All American Quarter Horse Congress

In November 1967, the Ohio Quarter Horse Association hosted a three-day American Quarter Horse show at the Ohio State fairgrounds that drew more than 5,000 people. They could not have known that this horse show would grow to become the ...

Mell Rifles & Troup Light Artillery

(Front Side): The Mell Rifles, Co. D, Cobb’s Legion Infantry, was raised in Athens, GA. in July 1861, by Patrick Hues Mell, Baptist minster and Vice Chancellor of the University of Georgia. After Mell resigned due to his wife’s death, ...

Battery K, Fifth U.S. Artillery

Twelfth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Twelfth Corps

Battery K Fifth U.S. Artillery

Four 12 Pounders

Lieut. David H. Kinzie Commanding

July 1 Marched to within a mile and half of Gettysburg.

July 2 At daylight took position to command a gap between the First and Twelfth ...

Avart-Peretti House

Erected 1842 as a two-story house for Mme. Augustine Eugenie de Lassize widow of Louis Robert Avart. J.N.B. de Pouilly and Ernest Goudchauz architect-builders

From 1906 through 1923 it was the residence and studio of the artist Achille Peretti.

During ...

Cartledge Creek Baptist Church

Originally Dockery's Meeting House, about 1774. Baptist State Convention, 1833, voted here to found Wake Forest Institute. About 4 miles North

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Avenue (Business U.S. 74) and Cartledge Creek (North Carolina Road 1005), on the ...

Memory of Our Departed Shipmates

Navy Club U. S. A.

[ Top has Insignia of the "Navy Club U.S.A." ]

This memorial is erected to

revere, honor, and perpetuate

the memory of our departed Shipmates

Roy E. Boggess

Ship No. 11

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and East ...

Battery G Fourth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Eleventh Corps

Army of the Potomac

Eleventh Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery G Fourth U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. Bayard Wilkeson Commanding

July 1 Arrived at Gettysburg about 11 a.m. Advanced and took position two sections on Barlow's Knoll the left section detached near ...

Martinsburg / Berkeley Riflemen

Martinsburg. Established, 1778, by Gen. Adam Stephen. Named for Col. Thomas Martin, nephew of Lord Fairfax. Home of Admiral C.K. Stribling and Admiral Charles Boarman. In Jackson’s raid, 1861, captured B&O locomotives were drawn by horses to Winchester, Va.

Berkeley Riflemen. ...

Barton Mines

In 1878, Henry Hudson Barton's search for a better abrasive brought him to Gore Mountain, where he discovered a unique hard rock source of garnet. Barton's find turned out to be the world's highest quality industrial garnet and it has ...