The Big Spring

Our Anchor in Time

“For generations this great spring was the main source of water supply for the town. Before the white man settled around it the Indians and the buffaloes knew it well. It was at the crossing of two ...

Trabue's Brigade

Breckinridge's Corps

C. S.

Trabue's (1st) Brigade,

Breckinridge's Reserve Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This brigade was engaged here at about 2.30 p.m. April 6, 1862. It advanced across Tilghman Creek and to the rear of the 3d Iowa camp where it was again engaged.

...

William Barret Travis

Lt. Col., Comdt.

[Column Inscription]

Commandancy of the Alamo -

Bexar, Feby. 24th, 1836-

To the people of Texas & all Americans in the world.

Fellow Citizens & Compatriots -

I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna -- I ...

The Cabildo

National Historic Landmark

[Panel 1:]

Erected 1795-1799,

Don Gilberto Guillemard, architect.

Constructed financed and directed by Don Andres Almonester y Roxas.

The mansard roof was added in 1847.

The illustrious Cabildo (Spanish colonial city council) held its sessions here in ...

Old Bluff Church

The Muddy Road to Averasboro

(Preface):

The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savanna, Georgia, after the "March to the Sea." Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ...

The Battle of the Washita

1868

The Battle of the Washita, a major engagement in the Plains Indian War which established the western expansion of the United States was fought on this site. Col. George A. Custer’s command of 500 troopers from the 7th Cavalry, and ...

Stone Bridge

Strategic Crossings

From the east side of this stream Union cannon fired the first shots of First Manassas at Confederates on the opposite ridge. The attack was a ruse. Though Stone Bridge offered one of the few easy routes across Bull ...

"Pursuers of Booth the Assassin"

Alexandria National Cemetery

In Memory

of

Peter Carroll

Samuel N. Gosnell

Geo. W. Huntington

Christopher Farley

who lost their lives, April 24, 1865

while in pursuit of Booth the assassin

of our beloved President

Abraham Lincoln.

Marker is on Cemetery Circle south of Wilkes Street, on the right when traveling ...

Nashville Blacks in the Civil War

From October - December 1862, on this hill, black laborers helped the Union Army build Fort Negley. In November, blacks helped defend the unfinished fort against Confederate attack. During the Battle of Nashville (December 1864), nearly 13,000 black soldiers aided ...

Balboa Theatre

The Balboa Theatre

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

1924

Marker is at the intersection of 4th Avenue and Broadway Court / E Street on 4th Avenue.

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