First New York Battery

Artillery Brigade - Sixth Corps

(Front):Double Canister at ten yards

July 3rd 1863.

Cowans First New York Battery

Artillery Brigade - Sixth Corps.

(Back):Erected in memory of our comrades, July 3rd. 1887.

"The world can never forget what they did here."During the cannonade preceding Longstreet's assault, ...

Teatro Carmen

Named for its founder, Carmen Soto Vásquez, this was one of the first theaters in Tucson devoted exclusively to the presentation of dramatic works in Spanish. From the opening night, May 20, 1915, with a performance of "Cerebro y Corazón" ...

Seven Days Battles

Gaines's Mill

The hill to the south, part of the Union line, was assailed by Stonewall Jackson (with D. H. Hill) in the late afternoon of June 27, 1862, after A. P. Hill's and Longstreet's first assaults on the west had ...

Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefield at Home

Civil War to Civil Rights

“I have paid the rent of a room in Washington ... retaining it merely as a shelter to which I might return when my strength should fail me under exposure and labor at the field.” Clara ...

Famous Indian Path

The Oakfuskee Trail, main branch of the noted Upper Creek Trading Path from the Savannah River to the Creek Indians of Central Alabama, passed this site, running east and west. Beginning at present Augusta, the route led this way via ...

Confederate Hospitals

In February 1864, to relieve the serious overcrowding of Confederate hospitals in the Atlanta and Dalton areas, Columbus was chosen as the site of a 1,500 bed army hospital. Eight buildings on Broad Street, including two saloons and the Court ...

Battle of Raymond

May 12, 1863, on Fourteen Mile Creek, 2,500 Confederate troops under Gen. John Gregg attacked a 10,000 man corps under Gen. James B. McPherson. Outnumbered, Gregg was forced to withdraw to Jackson.

Marker is on Mississippi Route 18 0.1 miles west ...

High Water Mark

(Viewer's Left Side Page):High Water Mark

of the Rebellion

This Copse of Trees was the Landmark

toward which Longstreet's assault was directed

July 3, 1863.

The Assaulting Column

was comprised of

Kemper's, Garnett's, and Armistead's Brigades of

Pickett's Division,

Archer's, Davis', Pettigrew's & Brockenbrough's Brigades

of Heth's Division

and Scales' and ...

Where Was the Bathroom?

"Bathing is promotive both of comfort and health; and where convenience for it are to be had, the men should be made to bathe at least once a week. The feet are to be washed at least twice a week."

1841 ...

Mathews School

In 1916, the Austin School District built three elementary schools, including two identical ones: Metz on the east side of town and Mathews on the west. Architect Dennis R. Walsh designed both schools, but only Mathews remains in use. Named ...