Belle Isle Prison

Directly in front of you, in mid-river, is Belle Isle. Despite the large number of Union prisoners brought to Richmond during the Civil War, the city had only two full-time prisons. Libby Prison for Union officers, a mile and a ...

Montgomery City Hall / Funeral for Hank Williams

(Front)

Built 1936-37

Following a fire in 1932 that destroyed a 19th century City Hall, architect Frank Lockwood designed a replacement for the same site. With the Depression affecting all construction projects during the period, the city received federal assistance through the ...

Battery E, 5th Massachusetts Light Artillery

First Brigade - Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

First Brigade Artillery Reserve

Massachusetts Light Artillery

5th Battery E

Six 3 inch Rifles

Captain Charles A. Phillips Commanding

July 2 Withdrew at 5 p.m. from the field near the Peach Orchard and went into Battery here.

July 3 ...

Lt. Col.Phillip A. Work

(1832-1911)

Came to Texas, 1838, represented Tyler County, Texas secession convention, 1861. Raised and was Captain, Co. F. 1st. Regt., Hood's Texas brigade. As Lieutenant Colonel, commanded Hood's Texans June 1862-Jan. 1864, in battles such as Sharpsburg, where brigade had over ...

Meriden / Lexington Alarm

[Marker front]:

1661 – Meriden area first settled when Jonathan Gilbert is granted land by Connecticut Colony and employs Edward Higbee to operate an inn.

1670 – Greater part of present-day Meriden lands placed under jurisdiction of Wallingford.

1728 – Separate ...

Site of First County Court House

San Luis Obispo was established February 18, 1850, as one of the original counties of California. The first county government was housed in Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. In 1854 county offices were transferred to the Casa Grande Building ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

Organized 1834

Present building erected 1855 under rectorship of Nicholas Hamner Cobbs, first Bishop of Alabama. Primary convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America was held here, July 3-6, 1861.

Charles Minnegerode Beckwith, fourth Bishop of Alabama, ...

Irving Hale

Scholar, Soldiers, Citizen

Valedictorian of the first class, Denver high School, 1877. Graduated from United States Military Academy 1884 with record of 2070.4 out of possible 2075. War with Spain, Colonel 1st Colorado infantry U.S.V. His regiment led the advance ...

Forest Hill Confederate Memorial

(Front):

In memory of our Confederate Dead

(Reverse):

To the brave soldiers who fell in the Battle of Westport October 23, 1864.

Marker can be reached from Troost Avenue 0.3 miles north of 71st Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Logan’s Memorial Day Order

General Orders, No. 11, Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, Washington D.C. May 5, 1868.

I. The 30th day of May, 1869, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in ...