Earthworks Over River Batteries

These earthworks protected the river batteries from attack by land. It is likely that these works were constructed by the Confederates during 1861 or 1862, although there is some evidence that they were constructed by Union forces during 1863.

Marker can ...

Mississippi State College for Women

The oldest state supported woman's college (1884) in the United States. It pioneered in adding vocational subjects to standard arts-science program.

Marker is at the intersection of College Street and 11th Street South, on the right when traveling east on College ...

Michigan at Perryville

(side 1)

Among the 61,000 Union soldiers who at the Battle of Perryville ended Confederate attempts to gain control of Kentucky were six Michigan units. The most heavily engaged of these were Coldwater’s Loomis Battery (Battery A of the ...

Illinois Soldiers at Perryville

The Fifty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, commanded by Maj. Joshua Winters, here suffered 113 casualties of 325 engaged. The Seventy-fifth Illinois, Lieut. Col. John E. Bennett, lost 225 of 700. Serving with Col. Michael Gooding's Thirteenth Brigade, the regiments came to the ...

New York State Memorial

(Front):To the officers and soldiers

of the

State of New York

who fell in the

Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3, 1863,

many of whom are here buried,

this monument is

erected by a grateful commonwealth.

Official return of casualties in the New York commands:

Killed: 82 officers, ...

Soldiers' National Cemetery

"Here where they fell,

Oft shall the widow's tear be shed,

Oft shall fond parents mourn their dead;

The orphan here shall kneel and weep..."

Hymn by Benjamin B. French

Sung at cemetery dedication

November 19, 1863

Soldiers' National Cemetery contains the graves of more than 6,000 ...

Buffalo Lick Plantation

Patented in 1742 by John Bolling, Jr., the 2,735-acre Buffalo Lick Plantation tract along the James

River includes three notable historic sites. One

mile southeast stand the ruins of Mount Athos, the

home of William J. Lewis, an officer in the

American Revolution and ...

Steamboating on the Missouri

First Steamboats

Early steamboat trips on the Missouri River tested boats, crews and passengers. Between 1820 and 1900, several hundred steamboats on the Missouri were destroyed by fire or boiler explosions, crushed by ice, or sunk by snags. The first steamboat ...

Putnam Memorial State Park

Putnam Memorial State Park

This park commemorates the three winter encampments in 1778 – 79 of Major General Isreal Putnam’s division of Continental Army troops during the Revolutionary War. The memorial park was created on the actual site of ...

Battery I, First Ohio Artillery

Eleventh Corps

Army of the Potomac

Eleventh Corps

Battery I First Ohio Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Captain Hubert Dilger commanding

July 1 Arrived at Gettysburg before noon and went into position west of the Carlisle Road. Engaged with two Confederate batteries. A Confederate rifled battery having ...