Battle of Aldie

17 June 1863

(East Side of Marker)

Facing the Confederate Position.

On the afternoon of June 17, 1863, cavalry from the Army of the Potomac under General Alfred Pleasonton and the Army of Northern Virginia under General JEB Stuart battled each other in ...

Cole Edward Spencer

1st Battalion - 15th Infantry Regiment

3rd Brigade Combat Team

3rd Infantry Division

Cole Edward Spencer

October 26, 1985 - April 28, 2007

"American by Birth" "Patriot by Choice"

Marker is on Pine Street north of Front Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Stryker

Stryker

Home of

William J. Knight

A captor of the

Confederate

Locomotive

"The General"

Marker is at the intersection of West Lynn Street (Ohio Route 191) and Horton Street, on the right when traveling east on West Lynn Street.

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Gen. Quandt Lane

In honor of native son Douglass Phillip Quandt, Major General, U.S. Army Corps.

Born in this arsenal, Douglass Quandt graduated from West Point and went on to command parachute batallions in the European and Pacific Campaigns in WWII and later in ...

La Purisima Mission - 1 Mile

Established, December 8, 1787, by Father Laseun. Damaged by earthquake, 1812; removed from control of Franciscans, abandoned 1834. State and National Park Service restoring major and many small structures, and water system. Only example in California of complete mission. State ...

Middleburg

Screening Lee’s Army

During the Gettysburg Campaign in June 1863, Middleburg was the scene of major cavalry operations. On June 17, 1863, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s small force, charged with screening Gen. Robert E. Lee’s infantry moving north and west of the ...

Burgoyne’s Army

?

Prisoners of war after

Battle of Saratoga

marched south along

this road Dec. 3, 1778.

Marker is on Maple Avenue (New York Route 17A), on the left when traveling north.

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Rock Presbyterian Church

Founded 1720 in North Milford Hundred, Cecil County, Maryland. First called New Erection on the Branches of Elk River, then Elk River Church, Great Elk, upper Elk and, since 1793, Rock. Present church erected 1761 remodeled in 1844 and 1900.

Marker ...

Champaign's Lincoln

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Until the Illinois Central Railroad rolled into town, geese flocked to a pond in this vicinity. The IC cleared the pond and donated the land to the Congregationalist (today the Community United Church of Christ). ...

Attack at Goose Creek Bridge

“Take That Bridge At All Hazards”

Leapfrogging westward in a delaying action against advancing Union cavalry June 21, 1863, the rear guard of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, commanded by Gen. Wade Hampton, took up a strong position on the steep ridge ...