Confederate Commissary Center

Swimming in Bacon

Before the Civil War erupted, Franklin became a regional transportation and commercial center for the Blackwater-Chowan River basin because the seaboard and Roanoke Railroad connected with steamship lines here. When the war began, the town immediately became a ...

Battery G, Second U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery G Second U.S. Artillery

Six 12 Pounders

Lieut. John H. Butler commanding

July 2 Arrived in the afternoon with the Corps and held in reserve.

July 3 Brought up to Ziegler's Grove in rear ...

Great Indian Warrior / Trading Path

(The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road)

The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the governors of NY, ...

Cruachan / Cruachain (Rathmore)

Cruachan is traditionally said to be the inauguration place of the Kings of Connacht. There are a number of monuments spread over an area of about two square miles. These include a large mound, a number of differently-shaped enclosures and ...

Rocketts Landing and Wharf / Confederate Navy Yard / Powhatan’s

(bottom panel)

Rocketts Landing and Wharf

Rocketts is the river frontage and community named for Robert Rockett, who operated a ferry across the James River beginning in the 1730s. Over the years, tenant laborers and merchants filled the floodplain with clusters of ...

Five Indian Nations

To commemorate the great congress of

five Indian Nations held here at Fort

Augusta in 1763. When seven hundred

Indians came to meet the Governors of

Georgia, Virginia, North and South Carolina.

Marker is on Washington Street near Reynolds St.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Welcome to Eutaw, Alabama: The Gateway To The Black Belt

County Seat of Greene County

In 1838, Greene County citizens voted to change the town seat from Erie to Eutaw. The City of Eutaw, Alabama was incorporated as a town by and act of the State Legislature on January 2, 1841. ...

Montgomery’s Slave Markets / First Emancipation Observance - 186

Side A

The city’s slave market was at the Artesian Basin (Court Square). Slaves of all ages were auctioned, along with land and livestock, standing in line to be inspected. Public posters advertised sales and included gender, approximate age, first name ...

Maybank Green / Hobcaw Plantation

Maybank GreenIn 1697 David Maybank II (1660-1713) acquired 200 acres along Hobcaw Creek from the Lords Proprietors. Maybank, a carpenter, built a house on this site which he named Hobcaw Plantation. The plantation passed to his daughter Susannah (1700-1746) ...

Confederate Troops and Casualties at Fort Donelson

C.S.A.

Buckner's Division strength 3425, killed 51*, wounded 314*, missing 41 - Aggregate 406*

• Brown's Brigade strength 2825, killed 38, wounded 247, missing 41 - Aggregate 326

• Hanson's Regiment strength 600, killed 13*, wounded 67* - Aggregate 80

Johnson's Division strength 4309*, ...