12th New Hampshire Volunteers

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):July 2, 1863.

Engaged, 224.

Killed, 20;

Wounded, 73;

Died of wounds, 6.

Our union is river, lake, ocean, and sky;

Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die.

12th N.H. Vol's.

(Left and Right):1st Brig.

2nd Division.

3rd Corps.

(Back):The New Hampshire Mountaineers

This Regiment was ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre

Led by Captains John T. Baker and Alexander Fancher, a California-bound wagon train from Arkansas camped in this valley in the late summer of 1857 during the time of the so-called Utah War. In the early morning hours of September ...

Kernville Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to

American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action

The Loneliest Prayer

As I squat here in this lonely place

A man maybe even you forgot,

I wonder

Am I in living hell?

Am I alive or not?

I think its more than ten years now

since my ...

Forrest's Raid

Dec. 19, 1862

At Spring Creek, Forrest, successful in the first part of his raid, regrouped his small brigade for further raids on Federals to the north. Here the 4th Alabama (Col. Russell), covering his rear, put to rout several companies ...

Freedom is a Light

For Which Many Men Have Died in Darkness

In unmarked graves within this square lie thousands of unknown soldiers of Washington’s Army who died of wounds and sickness during the Revolutionary War.

“The independence and liberty you possess are the ...

Charles Arthur Hughes Home

Circa 1901"We lived in a lumber granary and the old rock house. We traded for this lot and built a sixteen-foot square room. I borrowed Jim's team and wagon and worked at the sawmill to get lumber for our first ...

Horton House Historical Site

A Legacy Continues

The plantation that Christophe Du Bignon

established at the beginning of the nineteeth

century had its good and bad years.

When Christophe's youngest son, Henri,

married Ann Amelia Nicolau in 1808, they were

given 40 acres of planted cotton. This was ...

The Only Train Stop in Clyde

This monument commemorates what was once the only train stop in Clyde. The train that came through this stop in the early 1900's was owned by Southern Pacific and brought mail, passengers, and freight to this unique little town.

[Lower ...

Old Federal Road

The Federal Road across the Creek Indian County, western Georgia’s first vehicular way, passed here leading from Fort Hawkins (now Macon) to the Alabama River above Mobile. The trace, which followed closely the course of the earlier noted Lower Creek ...

Memorial to Four Unknown Soldiers

A Memorial to Four Unknown Soldiers

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who fell September 8, 1755 on the Bloody Morning Scout led by Col. Ephraim Williams and King Hendrick against the French and Indians under Baron Dieskau.

The remains were disinterred in building a state highway in ...