Confederate Hospitals

In July 1864 the following hospitals were in Barnesville:

Kingsville Hospital, Surgeon B. N. Avent.

Kingston Hospital, Surgeon George W. McDade, Asst. Surgeon V.S. Hopping. This hospital was moved from Kingston, Georgia.

Medical College Hospital, Surgeon W. P. Westmoreland (also ...

Western Maryland Station

This is the original station where

President Lincoln’s

train arrived November 18th, 1863.

After the dedication of the National

Cemetery and the delivery of the

Gettysburg Address on November 19th,

the train departed from this station.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Carlisle Street (U.S. ...

Church Administration Building

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints constructed this building between 1914 and 1917 to serve as its headquarters. Prior to its completion, the office of the Church President was located just to the east between Brigham Young’s Lion ...

"Dat De Shpot, Sergent!"

March 8, 1862 - Morning

I saw General Sigel sight one piece...and send a shot at the [rebel] guns that had driven us back...It went tearing in among the men and horses, killing and wounding both, and then exploded in one ...

Retreat and Counterattack – 1776

General George Washington, after losing New York to the British, led his rebel army in retreat through New Jersey and on Sunday, December 8, 1776 crossed the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. He commandeered every available boat along the river so ...

Battery D, 1st New York Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade, Third Corps

(Front):Battery D

1st N.Y.

Light Artillery,

Artillery Brig. Third Corps.

(Back):This Battery (Winslow's)

held this position during

the afternoon of July 2d 1863.

Casualties:

10 wounded, 8 missing.

Mustered in Sept. 6, 1861.

Engaged in 32 battles,

Mustered out June 16, 1865.

Marker is on Sickles Avenue, on the ...

In Memory of the Soldiers, Both Confederate and Union

In Memory of,

the soldiers, both Confederate

and Union, who died here

at the Exchange Hotel

used during the Civil War as the

General Receiving Hospital.

Gordonsville, VA

1861 –– 1865

Marker can be reached from South Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Coca-Cola Bottling Company In The United States

On July 21, 1899, two Chattanooga lawyers, Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead, signed a contract with the Coca-Cola Company granting them the exclusive rights to bottle Coca-Cola in most of the United States. Another Chattanooga citizen, John Thomas ...

Bohemian National Cemetery

This cemetery with original records written in Czech dated October 22, 1905, nestles in the heart of the Bohemian farm settlement ¼ mile north of their Fraternal Hall on Highway 27.

The 33 families who cleared the land and plotted it ...

Baltimore's Great Fire

Started 10-48 A.M.

February 7 1904

Under control 11-30 A.M.

February 8 1904

Property destroyed - $100 000 000

Insurance paid - $32 000 000

Acres covered - 140

Lives lost - none

Beginning at Liberty and German Streets the fire swept north to Fayette Street east to ...