First Boy Scout Armory

On this site, May 20, 1911, Ernest Thompson Seton, founder of the Boy Scouts of America, laid the cornerstone of the first Boy Scout Armory in the United States, and 30 acres of land were presented to the Mount Washington ...

Sachs Covered Bridge

Located just SE of here on the intersecting road. Built in 1852 by David S. Stoner, this lattice-truss bridge (based on a design patented by Connecticut architect Ithiel Town) extends 100 feet across Marsh Creek. Both Union and Confederate troops ...

Battery Arnold

The three 12-inch guns were mounted at Fort Mott between February and June, 1898. The guns and carriages were unloaded from vessels at the government wharf and transported down the rail lines behind the parapet. The guns were hauled up ...

Battle of Pine Knob

June 15, 1864

On June 15, 1864, General Sherman ordered an attack on a portion of the Confederate fortified line located between Gilgal Church and a hill one mile eastward known as "Pine Knob". Three divisions of the 20th Army Corps ...

Global War on Terrorism

In Loving Memory

Global War on Terrorism

Norman Kyle Snyder

Matthew A. Kimmell

Marker is at the intersection of South Court Street and West Jackson Street on South Court Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

2nd Battle of Winchester

June 13–15, 1863

General Richard S. Ewell with 14,000 Confederates defeated General Robert H. Milroy with 6,900 Federals. Prior to his second invasion of the North, Lee sent Ewell to Winchester to clear the Valley of Federals. Dividing his forces, Ewell ...

"A beehive of Activity..."

A look at Civil War Corinth

Tents, army wagons and soldiers crowd the area around the railway depot and Tishomingo Hotel in this view. Over the course of the war it is estimated that about 300,000 troops served in Corinth or ...

Battle of Iuka

Bloody clash of Sept. 19, 1862 resulted from attempt of Gen. Wm. Rosencrans, U.S.A., to expel Gen. Sterling Price, C.S.A., from N.E. Mississippi.

In 2 hours one-third of men engaged were casualties.

Marker is on Veterans Memorial Drive (State Highway 25), ...

The 11th Ohio Battery

During the battle of Iuka on Sept. 19, 1862, the 11th Ohio battery repulsed four Confederate assaults before finally being overrun by the 3rd Texas Cavalry. 3rd Louisiana Infantry and the Texas Legion. Of the fifty-four cannoneers in the battery, ...

Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez

(1916 - 2000)

Native San Antonian Henry B. Gonzalez spent 45 years in elective public office (city, state, federal) doing what he liked most - serving the people of San Antonio. As his seniority in Congress grew, he developed a greater ...