This Shell Fired into Vicksburg

This shell was fired into Vicksburg, Miss. by Union Troops in 1863. Presented to the City of Madison by the Widow of Dr. W. A. Collins, Assistant Surgeon of the Sixth Indiana.

Marker is on East Main Street west of Walnut ...

Ye Burying Yard

Ye Burying

Yard

Ridgefield's

Oldest Cemetery

Restored 1988

maintained by

The Caudatowa Garden Club

&

Parks & Recreation Dept.

The Burying Yard contains a monument listing 40 people who were buried in this cemetery between 1708 and about 1760. No original stones still stand.

Inscribed on the stone ...

Battle of Eutaw Springs

A Determined Defense by a Brave Commander

To Major Marjoribanks and the flank battalion under his command " I think the honour of the day is due."

~ Colonel Alexander Stewart

Major John Marjoribanks ( pronounced "Marshbanks") led a ...

Lewisboro Veterans Monument

This Memorial Is Dedicated

by

The Town of Lewisboro

To Honor Its Valiant Citizens

Who Have Served Their Country

In The Armed Forces

In Time Of War.

May 30, 1955

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Keeler Court, on the right when traveling north on ...

Hazen's Brigade

Nelson's Division

U. S.

Army of the Ohio.

Hazen's (19th) Brigade,

9th Indiana, 6th Kentucky,

41st Ohio,

Nelson's (4th) Division.

This brigade, with its regiments in order as above,

occupied this ground at 7 p.m. April 6, 1862 and

bivouacked here Sunday night. It advanced

in line of battle Monday ...

The Burning of Red Bridge

The "Last Straw" Between Jackson and Ashby

Nearly a month after the battle of Kernstown, Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's command had worked its way south "up" the Valley to join Gen. Richard S. Ewell's division near Conrad's Store (Elkton). To ...

Abingdon Church

This is the Third Church of Abingdon Parish and was erected in 1755 on the site of an earlier one. The parish, established between 1650 and 1655, had its first church near the river.

Marker is on George Washington Memorial Highway ...

History of Verbena

Original Grant from

King George III to

Charles Cropson 1746.

1783 Grant from Beverly

Randolf, Governor of

Virginia to Jacob Mire.

1802 Jacob Mire

to George Price.

Original Mill Built 1803.

Verbena Park

and present mill built by

Wm. E & H.C. Hisey 1935.

Present Owners

Floyd E. & Ann T. Stanley

Purchased 1940.

Marker ...

Camp of 1st and 2nd Battalions, 11th Illinois Cavalry

Prentiss' Division

U. S.

Camp of

1st and 2d Battalions,

11th Illinois Cavalry

Prentiss' (6th) Division,

Army of the Tennessee.

April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Hamburg-Purdy Road 0.3 miles east of Eastern Corinth Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Michael C. Garber

(Side one):

Born Staunton, Virginia 1813. Purchased Madison Courier 1849; transformed it from pro-Democratic to voice for newly forming Republican Party. Promoted the Union and objected to Fugitive Slave Law. Was active in Republican Party politics. Nominated to represent state's ...