Battery I, First Ohio Light Artillery

Dilger's Battery

(Front):Battery I,

First Ohio

Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade

Eleventh Corps

Capt. Hubert

Dilger

July 1,2 & 3,

1863.

Eidus Et Audax

Erected by the State of Ohio

(Right):

This Battery

Captain Huber Dilger Commanding

marched with the 11th Corps

from Emmittsburg to Gettysburg

July 1. At once upon arriving it

advanced rapidly to the Carlisle

Road and ...

Seven Hearths

Seven Hearths

1751-1754 Built by John Beebe Jr.

1919-1978 Home of George Laurence Nelson

1979- Kent Historical Society

On the National Register of Historic Places

Marker is at the intersection of Kent Cornwall Road (U.S. 7) and Studio Hill Road, on the ...

Headquarters of Generals Robert E. Lee

“Stonewall” Jackson and Longstreet

Headquarters of Generals Robert E. Lee, “Stonewall” Jackson, and Longstreet Sept. 6-9, 1862

Here was written the famous lost order No. 191 and the proclamation to the people of Maryland.

Marker is at the intersection of Urbana Pike (Maryland ...

Henry Martyn Robert

1837–1923

In Memory Of Henry Martyn Robert (1837–1923), Brigadier General, U. S. Army. One of this country’s most distinguished river, harbor and shoreline engineers, he was led by civic concerns to become the noted original author of the familiar parliamentary manual, ...

Headquarters Site of the Quartermaster General

Supplying the American Army was always critical. At Yorktown Colonel Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts, seconded by a man of his own choice, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dearborn of New Hampshire, held the responsibility for Washington’s Quartermaster Department.

Marker is on Historical Tour ...

Headquarters Site of Henry Knox

Knox’s able direction of the assembly and deployment of artillery in the Siege was a key element in the success of the Allied armies. He saw resulting victory, as he related in a note to his wife, as “A great ...

Purple Heart Memorial

Combat Wounded Veterans

Dedicated to the recipients of this nation's oldest military decoration

"The Purple Heart"

1782 The Military Order of the Purple Heart 1932

My stone is red for the blood they shed.

The medal I bear is my ...

Navy Department Library

The Navy Department Library was established by President Adams on 31 March 1800. On that date he wrote to the first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddart, requesting the gathering

“… of all the best writing in Dutch, Spanish, ...

French Artillery Park

Cannon were repaired and stored here. The time-worn earthworks visible on each side of the road were for protection, probably built by the French soldiers who operated the “Park.”

Marker is on Historical Tour Drive, on the right when traveling north. ...

French Artillery Park

This was an open field when the French wing established its ordinance depot. Here incoming cannon, howitzers, mortars, and their accouterments were made ready to move up to their siege line. Damaged pieces were brought back to the park for ...