“For God’s sake, why is the Artillery here not being made use of

In front of you is the Upper Works, and inside were two flank batteries, each with large ship guns. Lieutenant John Roberts of the Royal Artillery went to the left battery, nearest the bay, after the first shots of the ...

Weems-Botts House

Weems-Botts House

Dumfries, Virginia

Marked by Bill of Rights Chapter, NSDAR

October 6, 1996

Also on the house:

This Property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Duke Street and Cameron Street, on the ...

Stoneboro

Originally called Russell Place for the Irish immigrant William Russell who settled near here on a branch of Beaver Creek in 1768. General William Tecumseh Sherman passed through Russell Place in 1865 on his way to North Carolina. In 1871 ...

Birthplace of James Marion Sims, M.D.

James Marion Sims,

World Famed Physician,

Father of modern gynaecol'ogy

A blessing and a benefactor to women

was born in the farm house of

his parents near this site

January 25, 1813

Doctor to empress and slave alike

founder of women's hospital

of the state ...

Wood's Brigade

Hardee's Corps

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi

Wood's (3d) Brigade

9th Ark. Batt., 8th Ark., 27th Tenn., 16th Ala., 44th Tenn.,

Hardee's Corps.

About 650 men of these regiments were engaged here from 12 M. to 2 P.M. April 7, 1862.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

“… the enemy entered the upper work at the barrier at the same t

Here, by the innermost abatis, a British eight-inch howitizer – an artillery weapon that could hurl a 45-pound explosive shell a distance of 1900 yards – was aimed towards the shallow waters of Haverstraw Bay to guard the southern flank ...

Balance Lost and Found Again

Decades of logging, grazing, recreation, and foot traffic brought Asilomar's dune ecosystem to the brink of extinction. When the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) established the Asilomar summer camp grounds in 1913, the dunes became a recreation area.

By the time ...

16th Alabama, 55th Tennessee

Wood's Brigade - Hardee's Corps

C. S.

16th Alabama, 55th Tennessee,

Wood's (3d) Brigade, Hardee's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

These regiments were engaged here at 11.30 a.m.

April 6, 1862 in connection with Shaver's Brigade.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Hamburg-Purdy Road and ...

Pierce Manning Butler Young, (1836-1896)

PMB Young was born in Spartanburg, S.C., on November 15, 1836. His parents were Dr. Robert Maxwell and Elizabeth Caroline (Jones) Young. The Young family came to Georgia in 1839. He graduated from Georgia Military Institute at Marietta in 1856; ...

Black Hawk War Encampment

"Burnt Village"

A large Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Village dating from the 1700s once stood in this vicinity. Just before the 1832 Black Hawk War, the village was burned during an intra-tribal battle. On July 6th and 8th, the United States Military camped ...