Battle of Westport

On the morning of October 23, 1864 Federal cavalry under General Alfred Pleasonton forced a crossing of the Big Blue at Byram's Ford and assaulted this hill which was defended by General Marmaduke's Confederate division. After three hours of heavy ...

Bowling Green The Confederate Capitol of Kentucky

A newly constituted stated of Kentucky, having been conceived in sovereignty convention Nov. 18-20, 1861 at Russellville,

established Bowling Green as its capitol. The commissioners to the Confederate Congress in Richmond were William Preston, Louisville, William E. Simms, Bourbon, and ...

Battle of Mossy Creek

December 29, 1863

Federal cavalry under Gen. S.D. Sturgis established a line just east of Mossy Creek. At 9:00 a.m., Confederate Gen. W.T. Martin assembled 2000 dismounted cavalry and eight cannons at Talbott's Railroad Station, three miles east. They advanced along ...

David Crockett and Polly Finley

Legendary frontiersman David Crockett and his first wife, Polly Finley, were married on August 14, 1806, at the home of Polly's parents, William and Jean Finley, one~fourth mile southeast of here. After the wedding, David and Polly lived in this ...

Lower Fork Of Lynches Creek Baptist Church / Gum Branch Church

Lower Fork Of Lynches Creek Baptist Church

This church, which probably evolved from a branch meeting house built nearby in 1770 by First Lynches Creek Church, was constituted in 1789; Joshua Palmer became minister in the same year. The church ...

Ebenezer Fiske House Site

Minute Man National Historical Park

Minute Man National Historical Park was the starting place of the American Revolution: here the resolve of citizens willing to risk their lives for the ideals of liberty and self-determination was instrumental in the formation of ...

Revolution of 1689

1630 - 1930

Here on August 23, 1687,

the citizens of Ipswich, led by

the Reverend John Wise, denounced the levey of taxes by

the arbirary government of

Sir Edmund Andros, and from

their protest sprang the

American revolution of 1689

Marker is on North Main Street.

Courtesy ...

76th New York Infantry

Second Battle of Manassas

August 28, 1862

7:15 p.m.

2nd Brigade (Doubleday), First Division (King)

Third Corps (McDowell), Army of Virginia, USA

76th New York Infantry

("Cortland County Regiment")

Col. W.P. Wainwright

"Waving their colors defiantly, the rebels advanced from ...

John McCaffery Burial Site

John McCaffary was hanged in Kenosha on August 21, 1851, for the murder of his wife and buried here in an unmarked grave. Public outrage over his execution resulted in legislation that abolished the death penalty in Wisconsin on July ...

Church of the Good Shepard

Beginning in 1883 with services held in nearby private homes by Trinity Church, this Episcopal church then constructed a building on Barnwell Street, was organized into a mission, and became a separate parish in 1886. Rt. Rev. Albert S. Thomas, ...