Battery H, 1st Illinois Light Artillery

Unassigned

(Front of Monument):Illinois

Battery "H",

1st Regiment Lt. Artillery,

Unassigned,

Army of the Tennessee

(Plaque on Back):Silfversparre's Battery, "H".

Commanded by

Capt. Axel Silfverparre.

This battery consisting of four 20 pounders, arrived at the Landing April 5, 1862. During Sunday the guns were brought by ...

Bacon’s Quarter

Nathaniel Bacon (1647–1676), leader of Bacon’s Rebellion, acquired land in 1674 at Curles Neck in Henrico County and property near the falls on the north side of the James River that became known as Bacon’s Quarter in what is now ...

President Jimmy Carter

From this depot in 1975, James Earl Carter, Jr. launched a two-year campaign for the presidency of the United States. At first an unknown referred to as “Jimmy Who,” Carter was inaugurated as America’s 39th President on January 20, 1977.

James ...

Hart County Veterans of Foreign Wars Monument

In Honor and Memory

of All

Hart County Veterans

of

Foreign Wars

by

V.F.W. & Ladies Auxiliary

Post 8076

[V.F.W. Cross of Malta]

Marker is on Carolina Street south of West Franklin Street (U.S. 29), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Barton Street Potter's Field

This marker commemorates the indigent and unknown once interred on this site. Provided by the City in 1816 and once called the Colored Cemetery, it was the final resting place for former slaves and free blacks. Long barren and unused, ...

Hart County

Hart County was created by the Legislature on Dec. 7, 1853 out of portions of Franklin and Elbert counties. It is the only county in Georgia named for a woman - Nancy Hart.

Nancy Hart and her husband, Benjamin Hart, obtained ...

Bartley Mine Disaster

Near here in Bartley No. 1 shaft mine, on Jan. 10, 1940, fire and explosion killed ninety-one miners. The names if the men who lost their lives are inscribed on monument erected in the park by the United Mine Workers ...

William Arthur Floyd

May 1, 1945 - May 13, 1999

William A. Floyd, a man of vision, served Anderson County as the first African-American elected to the Anderson County Council. He touched the lives of many county residents in various ways, as a husband, ...

Batteries H and M, 4th U.S. Artillery / Battery H, 5th U.S. Arti

(Front):4th U.S. Artillery

Batteries "H" and "M"

Captain John Mendenhall.

5th Div. (Crittenden)

5th U.S. Artillery

Battery "H"

Captain Wm. R. Terrill.

2nd. Div. (McCook)

Army of the Ohio.

(Back):These batteries were engaged

near here from about 9 a.m.

to 1.30 p.m. April 7, 1862.

Casualties

3 killed, 19 wounded, total 22.

Marker is ...

Purple Heart

The Purple Heart medal was originated by General George Washington on August 7, 1782 for distinguished valor and now awarded only to members of the armed forces of the United States who have been wounded in combat against an armed ...