Missile Magazine and Launch Operations

Specifications

Range: 25-30 miles Speed: Mach 3 (1,679 mph) Altitude: 70,000 feet

Length: 34 feet 10 inches with booster Missile only: 21 feet

Weight: 2,455 lbs. with booster Missile only: 1,000 lbs.

Diameter: 12 inches Wingspan: 4 feet 6 inches

Warhead: Three high-explosive fragmentation charges ...

Battle of Falling Waters

Crockett-Porterfield House

On the morning of July 2, 1861, Federal troops under Gen. Robert Patterson crossed the Potomac River from Maryland and marched toward Martinsburg. Confederate Col. Thomas J. Jackson’s command marched from Camp Stephens, four miles north of town, to ...

3rd New York Independent Battery

Artillery Brigade

(Front):3rd N.Y.

Independent Battery

Artillery Brigade

Sixth Corps

July 2 & 3, 1863

(Back):Forced march 36 miles, second position

No losses

Mustered in May 21, 1861, participating

in all the campaigns of the Army of

the Potomac to the end of the war

Marker is on Taneytown Road (State ...

Second Battle of Drewry's Bluff

The Second Battle of Drewry's Bluff, or the Proctor's Creek engagement, began on 14 May 1864 when part of Union Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's Army of the James feigned an attack toward Richmond from Bermuda Hundred. After two days ...

The Battle of Drywood

September 2, 1861

After their victory at Wilson's Creek, on Aug. 10, 1861, Gen. Sterling Price's 12,000 Missouri State Guards marched north and camped near Nevada on the evening of Aug. 31. Next day 800 men felt out the 1800 Federals ...

Silk Culture at Ebenezer

Silk culture began at Ebenezer in 1736, when each Salzburger was presented with a mulberry tree and two were instructed in the art of reeling. Two machines were soon in operation in Mr. Bolzius' yard near

the church, and in ...

Great War For Democracy Memorial

[ main panel ]

"Their bodies are buried in peace;

but their name liveth for evermore."

Ecclesiastes 44:14

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely ...

Battle of Falling Waters

Stuart’s Surprise

Here at Stumpy’s Hollow on the morning of July 2, 1861, Confederate Lt. Col. J.E.B. Stuart captured a Union infantry company almost single-handedly. The Federals – Co. I, 15th Pennsylvania Volunteers – were acting as skirmishers in advance of ...

Albemarle Confederate Monument

1909

Erected by

the Daughters of

the Confederacy,

Albemarle County,

and the City of

Charlottesville

to commemorate

the heroism of

the volunteers of

Charlottesville and

Albermarle County.

"Love makes

memory eternal."

Marker is on Court Square near 5th Street NE.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Intermediate Defenses

Here ran, east and west, the intermediate line of Richmond defenses during the Civil War. Near this spot on 1 March 1864 Union Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick halted his raid that was intended to free Union prisoners and lower ...