70th Ohio Infantry

Buckland's Brigade - Sherman's Division

U.S.

70th Ohio Infantry,

Buckland's (4th) Brig., Sherman's (5th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was engaged here from 12 M. to 2 P.M. April 6, 1862 and then retired to Hamburg and Savannah Road.

Marker is at the intersection ...

The Freedom Trail

Neighborhood of Revolution

“Paul Revere . . . started on a ride which, in a way has never ended.” - Esther Forbes, author of the classic study, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

In the course of just two ...

Confederate Attacks Stall

General Couch found the uneven terrain in this section of the Union position less favorable for artillery. He chose to push his infantry well forward of the guns, placing brigades under Abercrombie, Howe, and Palmer on this ground to prevent ...

Camp of Burrow's Battery

14th Ohio - McClernand's Division

U.S.

Camp of

Burrow's Battery,

(14th Ohio), McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

First position in line of battle April 6, 1862, was on Corinth Road, 300 yards west of Review Field.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Sherman ...

Milton's Ferry Tavern

By 1832, Milton's Ferry offered a ferry service to and from Charleston by way of a canal dug through the marsh. The ferry tavern was a two-sided house with stables and carriage houses to serve travelers. A bi-weekly stage ran ...

Wilkes-Barre Fort

Completed 1778, Inclosing the courthouse of the Connecticut county of Westmoreland. Surrendered with Forty Fort to the British in 1778.

Marker is on Public Square.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Pleasant Valley War a.k.a. The Graham-Tewsbury Fued

Circa 1882 - 1892

One of the West’s Longest and Bloodiest feuds took

place here and around Pleasant Valley. The Grahams and

the Tewksburys had been in the cattle business and it

seems probable that they first fell out over the division of cattle ...

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887. Her mother moved to Charlottesville in 1909 and rented the house here. Beginning

in 1912, O’Keeffe intermittently lived with

her mother and sisters. She took a summer

drawing class taught by Mon Bement at the ...

Battle of Rhode Island   1778

During the American Revolution the British strategy focused on controlling American ports and blockading the coast. Because of Newport’s significance as a deep-water port and as a center of trade, British forces landed in Newport in December of 1776 to ...

In Memory of Captain Elihu H. Mason

In Memory of Captain Elihu H. Mason (1831-1896), second Medal of Honor winner, who is buried in this cemetery. In the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, Mr. Mason was on the celebrated Andrews Raid, April 12, 1862, ...