Confederate Trenches

The main objective of the Confederate Army in fortifying Columbus was to block Union movements on the Mississippi River. In so doing they also had to protect their position from inland attack. The trenches through which this trail leads are ...

In Search Of ....

Apparently, after Cannon # 209 was lost, no effort was made to immediately recover the cannon. World War II created severe shortages of manpower, equipment, and money. Several searches after the war were unsuccessful.

In 1984, a local historian and park ...

The People of the South Wind & the Coming of the Shawnee

Merriam Historic Plaza Walking Path

From the late 1600’s until the early 1800’s, the Kansa (or Kaw) Indians lived in northeast Kansas. The Indian word Kansa means “People of the South Wind,” and both the state of Kansas and the ...

Battle of Hubbardton

Only Battlefield On Vermont Soil

Here on July 7, 1777 a successful rearguard action by Colonel Seth Warner’s Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire troops ended British pursuit under Generals Frazer and Reldesel. Thus, General St. Claire’s American army, retreating from Fort ...

Saint John's Infirmary

Wisconsin’s First Public Hospital – 1848

Founded May 15, 1848, with the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul providing direction and nursing, St. John’s Infirmary offered Wisconsin’s first public hospital care under the supervision of the patient’s physician. ...

Dewitt Bluff

[Front]

Located about 1/2 mile east, this bluff, part of a Royal landgrant to Edward Crofts in 1740, was named for the DeWitt family, who settled nearby prior to 1767. This area of Prince Frederick Parish was known as Queensborough ...

Battery I, Fifth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade, Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery I Fifth U.S. Artillery

Four 3 inch Rifles

Lieut. Malbone F. Watson commanding

July 2 About 4.30 p.m. arrived and took position north of Little Round Top. 5.30 moved to the front at the ...

Friendship Archway

This friendship archway was erected by the District of Columbia and the Municipality of Beijing, 1986.

Marion Barry, Jr.

Mayor of Washington, D.C.

Chen Xitong

Mayor, Beijing Municipal Government

Marker is on H Street , NW near 7th Street, NW.

End of the Second Day

July 2, 1863 - Second Day

"The great Rebel assault, the greatest ever made upon this continent, had been made and signally repulsed...."

1st Lt. Frank A. Haskell, U.S.A.

Aide to Brig. Gen. John Gibbon.

When the Union position at the Peach Orchard (1/2 ...

Francis Salvador

Commemorating

Francis Salvador

1747-1776

First Jew in South Carolina to hold public office and to die for American Independence

He came to Charles Town from his native London in 1773 to develop extensive family landholdings in the frontier district of ...