Shaver's Brigade

Hardee's Corps

C.S.

Shaver's (1st) Brigade,

7th Ark., 2d Ark., 3rd Confederate,

Hardee's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

These regiments, in order as above, made an attack

over this ground at 2.30 p.m., April 6, 1862. Lieut.

Col. Dean, 7th ...

McBee's Ferry

1/2 mile NW, near the present railway bridge, this ferry was established by William McBee in the last decade of the 18th century. Many early travelers have, in their diaries, mentioned using it.

Marker is on Tennessee Route 11E, on the ...

Ohio 5th Battery Light Artillery

Commanded by Capt. Andrew Hickenlooper -- Prentiss' Division

(front):

Ohio 5th Battery Light Artillery

Commanded by

Capt. Andrew Hickenlooper

Prentiss'(6th) Division

Army of the Tennessee

(back):

This battery went into action at 7.30 a.m., April 6, 1862,in Spain field. At 9 a.m. it retired to this place ...

Major John B. Downing

Major John B. Downing was born in Rutland in February 1834, son of Rodney and Marian Black Downing. Educated at Marietta College, he spent 27 years as a pilot and boat owner on the Mississippi River, operating between St. Louis ...

Hickman Bluff Stabilization Project

1996 - 2000

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Memphis District

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell

Congressional Sponsor

Mayors of Hickman

Judy C. Powell

John P. Shuff

Richard H. White, M.D.

Project Design: D'Appolonia, Inc.

Prime Contractor: Schunbel Foundation Co.

Subcontractor: Coffey Construction Co.

After a century of instability, erosion of Hickman Bluff caused ...

Rear Admiral William W. Outerbridge

Middleport native William Outerbridge (1906-1986) initiated the first shots of American involvement in World War II at 6:37 a.m. prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Outerbridge was commander of the destroyer USS Ward, which ...

The Madden Branch Massacre: Anti-Confederate activity in North G

North of here on Madden Branch in Polk County, Tennessee, on November 29, 1864, during the American Civil War, six Georgians trying to enlist in the U.S. Army -- Thomas Bell, Harvey Brewster, James T. Hughes, James B. Nelson, Elijah ...

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

died in this house

April 15, 1865 at 7:22 a.m.

Purchased by

the United States

in 1896.

Marker is at the intersection of 10th Street, NW and E Street, NW, on the right when traveling south on ...

Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado

First Railroad in Texas

Planned 1840 to benefit the Republic of Texas by moving rich sugar and cotton crops from plantation areas. Chartered 1841 by 5th Congress of the Republic, in name of Harrisburg Railroad & Trading Company.

H. R. ...

Mendota / Sibley House Association

?Mendota

This wide valley intersection between the two rivers known today as the Minnesota and Mississippi has been a meeting place for people for thousands of years.

The Dakota people lived on these prairielands by the 1700s. They knew this place as ...