Bragg's Headquarters

Fateful Decisions at Stones River

(Preface): Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans led the Army of the Cumberland from Nashville toward Murfreesboro in December 1862, while Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg and the Army of the Tennessee occupied the town to protect the ...

Cleburne Outflanked Left Wing, 17th A.C.

July 22, 1864. The left wing (Giles Smith’s div., 17th A.C.) of McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. (US) occupied an intrenched line on Flat Shoals Rd. between Leggett’s Hill & Glenwood, where it hooked eastward, facing to the south.

Gen. P.R. ...

Cleburne's Div. in the Federal Rear

July 22, 1864. Cleburne’s 3 brigades, (CS) after over-running the Federal left (at Glenwood), moved on the rear of its line facing W. on Flat Shoals Rd., at the same time Maney’s div. (CS) attached its front. Beset on both ...

The Battle of Belmont

A State Divided

North and west of this location, the Battle of Belmont was fought on November 7, 1861. It was the first battle in which Ulysses S. Grant commanded an army. He had recently been promoted to Brigadier General and ...

Henry Bourne Joy and the Lincoln Highway

This monument commemorates the Lincoln Highway, America's first transcontinental automobile road, and Henry Bourne Joy, the first president of the Lincoln Highway Association (1913). Joy, also president of the Packard Motor Car Company, is sometimes called the father of the ...

Abraham Lincoln

"We must think anew and act anew"

1809 - 1865

This monument commemorates the

sesquicentennial of Lincoln's birth

by the State of Wyoming in 1959

Charles W. Jeffrey, M.D., Rawlins - Wyo. Donor

Robert I. Russin, Sculptor

Marker is at ...

Harbison College President's Home

The National Register

of Historic Places:

Harbison College

President's Home

Marker can be reached from Greenville Street (State Highway 20) north of College Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle at Stones River

December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863

Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans - some 81,000 men - clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Year's ...

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Conquistador..........,

   Treasurer of the ill-fated Panfilo de Narvez expedition, was first to write of the discovery of Tampa Bay, April 17, 1528, calling it "Bahia de la Cruz, the best harbor in the world."

   After the disastrous trek through Florida ...

President Abraham Lincoln

Campaign Speech, Sept. 30, 1859

Candidate Abraham Lincoln delivered a campaign speech at the 1859 Wisconsin State Fair.

The Fair site, at that time, was at the Spring Street Hill/Brockway Grounds located in the heart of Milwaukee between Wisconsin Avenue ...