12th Iowa Infantry

Tuttle's Brigade -- W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U. S.

12th Iowa Infantry,

Tuttle's (1st) Brig., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

At this place the 12th Iowa Infantry was surrounded, and 429 of its officers and men taken prisoners, at 5.30 p.m. April 6, ...

Pomfret

The Town began as the “Mashamoquet Purchase,” 15,100 acres brought by twelve proprietors in 1686 from James Fitch of Norwich, who had acquired it from the Indian sachem, Owaneco. In 1713 the Town was incorporated and named for Pontefract in ...

Nocoroco

On this site was the Timucua Indian village of Nocoroco. It was mentioned in the report of Alvaro Mexia's expedition down the Florida east coast in 1605. It was the first Indian village south of St. Augustine noted by Mexia. ...

Battle for the Bridge

The Foundry Fight

On April 20, 1863, Confederate Gens. William E. “Grumble” Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Taking separate routes, they later reported that they marched ...

Willington

A South Carolina Railroad Village

The community of Willington is significant as a reminder of the role of the railroad in community development in rural South Carolina at the close of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. During ...

Island Ford Road

The earliest roads in Ninety Six were Indian trails, used for travel by foot and horse and for hunting. White settlers followed these trails to explore the countryside, trade, and eventually, to settle. As the stream of settlers into the ...

Dunlora Academy

Two and a half miles north, on Dunlora plantation then owned by Mrs. Ann Hickman, the Virginia Baptist Education Society established, in 1830, a school for ministers. This school, under the principalship of Rev. Edward Baptist, M.A., was known locally ...

Hull Road

This road was part of

the original Hull Road

cut by

General Hull

in the march of the

British Army through

Eastern North Carolina

during the Revolutionary War

Two miles east is

the grave of

Thomas Holliday

General in the

American Army

in the War of 1812

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. ...

Slaughter Pen Farm

Into the Field

You are standing near the center of the most successful Union attack at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Two Union divisions, Gen. George G. Meade's on your left and Gen. John Gibbon's on your right, advanced into this field ...

Tullytown Veterans Memorial

This memorial is in honor of those who answered the call of their country in her needful hour.

Original Memorial 1966

Rededicated November 11, 2008

Marker is on Fallsington Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org