Seven Days Battles

Golding's Farm

Half a mile northwest occurred the action of Golding's Farm at dusk on June 27, 1862, as the battle of Gaines's Mill, on the other side of the river, was ending. The Confederates, sallying from their defenses, attacked Hancock's ...

Seven Days Battles

Grape Vine Bridge

Here Sumner crossed the river to reinforce the part of McClellan's army fighting at Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862. Here a part of Porter's force crossed in the night of June 27, 1862 after the battle of Gaines's ...

St. Michael's Catholic Church

In 1872, Catholics of German ancestry settled on the former Wilson Plantation and established the town of St. Florian. St. Michael's Church was built south of the road, moved to the present site in 1878, and replaced the present building ...

Heater Fields

The 2nd (Vermont) Brigade of the 2nd Division, VI U.S. Corps, briefly deployed around the Heater House as skirmishers in the first federal effort to stop the 19 October 1864 Confederate morning attack. When this proved unfeasible, the entire division ...

First Aluminum Observatory Dome

On the hill just west of here, the first known astronomical observatory with an aluminum dome was erected in 1930. Designed & built by Pittsburgh amateur astronomers led by Leo J. Scanlon, the Valley View Observatory stood beside his Van ...

Rivers Bridge Confederate Dead

( Front face )

In Memory

of our

Confederate Dead

who fell in battle at

River's Bridges

Feb. 4, 1865.

(Reverse face )

Soldier's rest, your welfare o'er,

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,

Dream of battlefields no more,

Days of ...

Our Confederate Dead

Rivers Bridge State Park

Most of the Confederates killed here were Georgians,

and most were unknown when they were reburied. But

the local community remembered them as " our

Confederate dead, " the fallen heroes of a common cause. The monument placed over ...

Rivers Bridge State Historic Site

( Left side )

The Legacy of Total War

From January to March in 1865 more than

60,000 Union soldiers led by General

William Tecumseh Sherman marched

across South Carolina. They brought

total war to the state, destroying

railroads, factories and farms and

attacking civilian ...

The Ultimate Weapon

This monument is dedicated to the only indispensable instrument of war, The American Soldier---

The Ultimate Weapon

“If they are not there, you don't own it.”

17 August 1990

[A nearby companion marker, shown in pictures below, outlines the people and effort needed ...

555th Parachute Infantry Battalion

"Triple Nickels" "Smoke Jumpers"

In memory of America's first Black paratroopers, their successor units, and their supporters whose pioneering efforts and sacrifices have contributed to the development of the world's finest airborne forces.

"All the Way!"

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