Battlefield Overview

You are standing, more or less, on the old Lexington-Huntingdon Road. Behind you is the reconstructed split-rail fence, where the Union troops took position and faced General Nathan Bedford Forrest's unrelenting artillery assault and surprise attack on their rear. In ...

Battlefield of Wyoming

Between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of July 3, 1778, an American force of about 300 men, led by Col. Zebulon Butler, Col. Nathan Denison, Lieut. Col. George Dorrance and Major Jonathan Garrett formed in line of battle ...

Bull Run Battlefields

Just to the east were fought the two battles of Manassas or Bull Run.

Marker is on Lee Highway (U.S. 29), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park

Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park is one of Prince William County's most treasured open spaces. This peaceful landscape features over 2.7 miles of walking and equestrian trails. Wildlife abounds in the fields, woods and ponds. Evidence of people who occupied ...

Nuns of the Battlefield

Civil War Nurses Memorial

(Upper Inscription):

They comforted the dying, Nursed the wounded, carried hope to the imprisoned, gave in His name a drink of water to the thirsty.

(Lower Inscription):To the memory and in honor of

The Various Orders of Sisters

who gave their ...

Road to Monmouth Battlefield

June 20-22, 1778

In 1778, the Borough of New Hope was the colonial river crossing known as Coryell's Ferry. During the Revolution, the Grand Continental Army under the command of General George Washington crossed the Delaware River into NJ enroute ...

Revolutionary War Battlefield and Burial Ground at Spanish Fort

During the Revolutionary War, France, Spain, Britain, and the United States were interested in the fate of this region. In March 1780, Spanish forces captured Mobile. They established a palisaded fort with trenches (one mile north of here) to protect ...

Dade Battlefield

December 28, 1835

Major Francis L. Dade and his command consisting of detachments of the Fourth Infantry, Second and Third Artillery United States Army, while marching from Tampa Bay to Fort King was attacked by a superior force of Seminole ...

The Battle Begins at Barber’s Wheat Field

History Now

The fighting began where you now stand and in the woods behind you in mid-afternoon of October 7, 1777. Within minutes, more than 4,000 men collided in savage combat along a line stretching westward across the Barber Wheat ...