Friendship Cemetery

This site was donated by Arnold Milner, owner of a farm on the Etowah River, to be used for a church and cemetery for his family and friends. Friendship Presbyterian Church held its first services here on February 26, 1843. ...

Charles Burr Todd

This Tablet is Placed by the Commissioners

Of Israel Putnam Memorial Camp

To Perpetuate the Memory Of

Charles Burr Todd

1849 – 1928

Historian and Biographer

A Native of Redding, Inspired By Love For His Town

And State, He Was a Leader In The Movement

To ...

Michigan at Perryville

(side 1)

Among the 61,000 Union soldiers who at the Battle of Perryville ended Confederate attempts to gain control of Kentucky were six Michigan units. The most heavily engaged of these were Coldwater’s Loomis Battery (Battery A of the ...

Illinois Soldiers at Perryville

The Fifty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, commanded by Maj. Joshua Winters, here suffered 113 casualties of 325 engaged. The Seventy-fifth Illinois, Lieut. Col. John E. Bennett, lost 225 of 700. Serving with Col. Michael Gooding's Thirteenth Brigade, the regiments came to the ...

Franklin Academy

State's oldest free school. Has functioned since 1821. Worthy trustees, using 16th section income & employing able teachers, early made Columbus a cultural center in northeast Mississippi.

Marker is on 3rd Avenue North near N. 5th Street (U.S. 45).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Union Artillery 6 Pound James Rifles

At the right of the Battery of Fort Pillow these two middle embrasures or openings in the parapet were fortified with two 6 pounder rifles. These were manned by members of Battery D, 2nd U.S. Light Artillery (colored). During the ...

Russell House

On the knoll, it was a key position on the Union left flank under Maj. Gen. McCook in Battle of Perryville, Oct. 8, 1862. The scene of desperate fighting, it changed hands twice and was hit many times. After the ...

New York State Memorial

(Front):To the officers and soldiers

of the

State of New York

who fell in the

Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3, 1863,

many of whom are here buried,

this monument is

erected by a grateful commonwealth.

Official return of casualties in the New York commands:

Killed: 82 officers, ...

Coastal Carolina University

[Front]

Coastal Carolina University was founded in 1954 as Coastal Carolina Junior College, holding evening classes in Conway High School 1954-1963. Its first enrollment numbered 53 students. Originally sponsored by the College of Charleston 1954-1958, the junior college became a ...

Soldiers' National Cemetery

"Here where they fell,

Oft shall the widow's tear be shed,

Oft shall fond parents mourn their dead;

The orphan here shall kneel and weep..."

Hymn by Benjamin B. French

Sung at cemetery dedication

November 19, 1863

Soldiers' National Cemetery contains the graves of more than 6,000 ...