Mersy’s Brigade

July 22, 1864. Col. August Mersy's brigade of Sweeny's div., 16th A.C. (US) was aligned on the rt. of the div. when it went into action to meet the assault of Walker's div. (CS) advancing up Sugar Creek valley (from ...

Jones's Brigade

Stuart's Cavalry Division

Army of Northern Virginia

Stuart's Cavalry Division

Jones's Brigade

6th. 7th. 11th. 12th. Cavalry Regiments

and 35th. Virginia Cavalry BattalionJuly 1 The 12th. Regiment was detached and remained on the south side of the Potomac River. White's 35th Virginia Battalion was also ...

Terry's Mill Pond

The flat area S. was the bed of Terry's mill pond - the impounded waters of Sugar Cr. Tom Terry (1823-1861) operated the grist mill that stood 800 yds. downstream. It was burned by Federal troops July 29, 1864 & ...

Sixth Regiment U.S. Cavalry

The Marshall and Culberson House

were the

temporary field hospitals of

the Regiment on July 3rd 1863The Regiment commanded by Major S.H. Starr was sent to Fairfield to capture a Confederate wagon train, guarded by Jones' Brigade of Confederate cavalry consisting of the ...

Civil War Action Around Latimer's Farm

Nineteenth-century farmer Ruben Latimer lived a mile southwest of this spot. He, his wife Sarah, their children and eleven slaves worked a modest self-sufficient farm where they raised livestock and grew cotton, corn and other food crops. In June 1864 ...

"Kansas Vietnam Veterans Memorial"

[Honor Roll of Names on Black Granite]

April 15, 1995

This UH-1H "Huey" helicopter was donated by Department of the Army and Kansas Army National Guard to Girard Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7479 through the efforts of All American Post Commander ...

Philipsburg Manor

Philips Manor was an 18th-century milling, farming and trading complex owned by the Loyalist Philipse family, tenanted by farmers, and operated by enslaved men, women and children.

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

Marker can be reached from the intersection of N Broadway (U.S. ...

Civil War Action Around Latimer’s Farm

Nineteenth-century farmer Ruben Latimer lived a mile southwest of this spot. He, his wife Sarah, their children and eleven slaves worked a modest self-sufficient farm where they raised livestock and grew cotton, corn and other food crops. In June 1864 ...

The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing ...

Norman Mattoon Thomas

Was born on this site Nov. 20, 1884. He graduated from Marion High School in 1901, Princeton University in 1905, and from Union Theological Seminary. Thomas, a clergyman, and the son of Marion's Presbyterian minister, was a tireless worker for ...