Florence National Cemetery

The Florence National Cemetery

established in 1865

is this day re-dedicated

to the memory of all the

patriotic men and women

who answered their

country's call to service

their inspiring contribution

will help preserve ...

Presidents of Jacksonville State

James G. Ryals, Jr. 1883-1885

J. Harris Chappell 1885-1886

Carleton B. Gibson 1886-1892

J. B. Jarrett 1892-1893

Jacob Forney, IV 1893-1899

Clarence William Daugette 1899-1942

Houston Cole 1942-1971

Ernest Stone 1971-1981

Theron E. Montgomery 1981-1986

Harold J. McGee 1986-1999

William A. Meehan 1999

Marker is on University Circle west of North ...

Jacksonville State University

This Educational Center of

Northeast Alabama Traces its Origin to

Jacksonville Male Academy 1836

Jacksonville Female Academy 1837

Calhoun College 1871

Calhoun Grange College 1878

State Normal School 1883

State Teachers College 1929

Jacksonville State College 1957

Jacksonville State University 1966

Erected February 22, 1983 in observance of ...

Patterson Store

Established in 1904 the Fred G. Patterson Store was famous as a general mercantile, specializing in shoes and cotton pick sacks. A shoe at the entrance indicated the store was open for business. In 1993 the family donated the buildings ...

33d N.J. State Flag

July 20, 1864. To this high ground, 500 yds. in front of Geary’s div. (20th A.C.) [US] on Collier Rd., the 33d N.J. regt., Jones’ brigade, was sent to establish & support a battery position.

The regiment had scarcely reached this ...

Patrick Gass

(1771 - 1870)

Enlisted by Meriwether Lewis as a private in the Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1803 - 1806; selected as a Sergeant in August, 1804. His carpentry and soldiering skills earned written commendation from Lewis. Gass later published his ...

Hood's Attack

Fitz John Porter's troop had repulsed Confederate attacks throughout the afternoon. With daylight waning, Lee turned to John Bell Hood to spearhead the final assault. Personally leading the 4th Texas and the 18th Georgia, General Hood instructed his men not ...

The Battle Begins

Porter’s soldiers rested their muskets across a make-shift breastwork of felled trees, bales of hay, and knapsacks. A Union soldier remembered “an ominous silence” that covered the battlefield moments before Lee launched his first assault at 2:30 p.m.

Union shells ...

Thompson's Rifle Battalion: Capt. James Chambers' Company

Recruited in this part of Cumberland (now Franklin) County, Chambers' Company was a unit of the first battalion in the colonies authorized by Congress, in June 1775. From here this company marched about 450 miles to join the siege of ...

New Albany National Cemetery

This National Cemetery is one of the original 7 established in 1862 by Congress. 5.46 acres were purchased from Dr. Charles Bowman Dec. 1862 for burial of Union and Confederate casualties. There are over 5,000 interments from 7 conflicts. Civil ...