Early Education in Dinwiddie County

Dinwiddie, Virginia

Prior to the Civil War, Dinwiddie County was home to several private academies for those who could afford to pay for their education. While it was mostly affluent males who were educated, Pegram’s Academy, Female Academy, Girard Heartwell School ...

Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

3rd Volunteer Brigade

(Front):Huntington's Battery

H 1st Ohio Light Artillery

3rd Volunteer Brigade

Artillery Reserve

July 2d and 3d 1863.

Erected by the State of Ohio

(Back):Battery H 1st Ohio Light Artillery

Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio,

November 7, 1861. Took part in 12 general

engagements and the siege of ...

Father Albert Braun O.F.M.

Born September 5, 1889 Died March 6, 1983

Father Albert was a young missionary and teacher to the Mescalero Apaches in New Mexico and other tribes in Arizona.

Father Braun was an Army chaplain in World War I and World War II ...

The Battle at the Bridge

The Revolutionary War

25 April 1781

In the late afternoon and evening of 24 April 1781, Virginia militia regiments of Brigadier General Peter Muhlenberg’s Corps of about 1,000 men marched into Petersburg in order to counter an expected attack by the invading ...

Fort Clark/The Bombardment of Fort Hatteras

Side A:Fort ClarkHatteras Inlet, defended by Forts Clark and Hatteras, was a strategic port of entry for troops and supplies providing deep water access to the vital intercoastal waterways. In later May of 1881, the Federal Blockade Board of Strategy ...

The Last Battle of the French and Indian War and Public Memory

[Top half of Marker]

Erected 1898 by the Piqua Chapter,

of the Daughters of the American

Revolution in commemoration of

the last Battle of the French and

Indian War, fought near this spot,

1763.

[Bottom half of Marker]

This monument ...

The Battle of Fountain Dale

Fountain Dale is located between Jack's Mountain and Beard's Hill, and is also connected to two major mountain gaps, Monterey Pass and Fairfield Gap, which would prove to be fighting ground all of it's own. Troops on both sides needed ...

The Confederate Line

You are now standing beside the Sunken Road, part of a heavily used 19th-century road system that linked Washington, D.C. and Richmond. In 1862, Confederate riflemen fired from the road upon line after line of Union troops advancing across open ...

All Shapes, Sizes and Materials

Aids to Navigation

Primary seacoast lights were located to warn mariners of their proximity to land, the presence of navigational dangers, and to help set their course. By 1852, however, lighthouses and lightships often looked so much alike that it ...

Battle of Coosawhatchie

Coosawhatchie

Jasper County, South Carolina

Commanders: Colonels William Moultrie, John

Laurens; Gen. Augustine Prevost

Casualties: 3 Americans killed, 8 wounded

"Despite the defeat at Port Royal Island, General

Prevost was determined to make a second

attempt to capture Charleston. Instead of a

small detachment of 150 men, ...