Fort Huachuca

(1877)

Situated on the southern route to the Pacific Ocean, it brought law and order to the Arizona Territory, protecting settlers, miners, travelers and immigrants. Its troops won the surrender of Geronimo. Generals Pershing and Wood served here.

As the Army's electronic ...

Artillery Saves the Day

January 2, 1863

Confederate infantry started to wade the river. Could they be stopped? Captain John Mendenhall massed 57 guns here. Shot, shell and canister rained on the attackers, costing them almost 16 casualties a minute. The Confederates could not stand ...

Battle at Stones River

December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863

Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans - some 81,000 men - clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Year's ...

Hopewell / Hopewell Indian Treaties

Hopewell

Hopewell was the family home of General Andrew Pickens, Revolutionary War hero and Indian Commissioner, and his wife, Rebecca Calhoun Pickens. Their son, Andrew Pickens, S.C. Governor, 1816-1818, later owned Hopewell, and it was the childhood home of his son, ...

20th Maine Regiment

3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Corps

The 20th Maine Reg't,

3d Brig, 1st Div, 5th Corps

Colonel

Joshua L. Chamberlain

captured and held this

position on the evening

of July 2d, 1863, pursuing

the enemy from its front

on the line marked by

its monument below.

The reg't lost in the ...

Dr. Reuben Saunders (1808-1891)

(side 1)

Outstanding pioneer physician in Western Kentucky for 50 years. Born in Frankfort; died in Paducah. Buried in this cemetery beside his son, Dr. John Bartlett Saunders (1840-1873), also a physician of eminence. John migrated to Honolulu, where he did ...

Governor Joseph Maull

Born in Lewes on September 6, 1781, he was the son of John and Mary Marsh Maull. Choosing to become a physician, he studied medicine with Doctor Jacob Wolfe. By 1803 he had moved to Milton, where he served the ...

Carmichael General Store/U.S. Post Office

Bill's Trading Post/G & M Stronghold Steakhouse

335 North Garden Avenue

Built in 1905

This is perhaps the oldest building still standing in Sierra Vista. Mr. John Reilly homesteaded the property and received the patent for the land in March of 1911. ...

The Battle For Fort Blair

William C. Quantrill, a former Kansas school teacher, headed a guerilla army which had committed many outrages around Lawrence and Kansas City, one being the Lawrence Massacre. Quantrill received a commission of Colonel, supposedly either from General Sterling Price or ...

Irvin S. Cobb

Native of Paducah, famed wit and humorist; newspaper reporter, war correspondent and feature writer; author of books, short stories, movie scripts and plays. Started career with local paper. Moved to New York, 1904, to Hollywood, 1934. Beloved, especially for his ...