Lt. Gen. Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller

Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller was born on 26 June 1898 in West Point and lived here until entering Virginia Military Institute in 1917. He withdrew a year later and enlisted in the Marine Corps, serving more than 37 years. One ...

Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller

“West Point’s Own” “A Marine’s Marine”

Lt. General Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller, the most decorated Marine in the history of this country, was born on June 26, 1898 and grew up only a few houses away from where are standing. He ...

Pittsburg Post Dispatch Building

Built in 1923, this brick building was the home of the Coast Counties Gas and Electric Company which provided utilities to the City of Pittsburgh. The company closed its office in the 1950s and the building became a newspaper publishing ...

Pennsylvania Monument

3rd Div. 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac

Bermuda Hundred

Weldon Raid

Hatcher’s Run

Petersburg

Fort Stedman

Fort Mahone

Marker is on Wakefield Street 0.1 miles from Goodrich Avenue, in the median.

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Primitive Baptist Church

Built in 1869 by the Valdosta Baptist Church, this is the oldest extant Church building in Valdosta. The building was purchased by the Valdosta Primitive Baptist Church when it was constituted on January 28, 1899.

Marker is on East Central Avenue ...

God has granted us a Happy New Year!

God has granted us a Happy New Year!

Braxton Bragg, general commanding the Army of the Tennessee, in a telegram to Confederate President Jefferson Davis

On New Year's Eve the fighting had raged from dawn to dusk. Here on the edges of ...

Presidential Recognition

150th Anniversary of the battle

This is a place of inspiring memories.

Here less than a thousand men, inspired by the urge of freedom, defeated a superior force....This small band of patriots turned back a dangerous invasion well-designed to separate and dismember ...

Second Pennsylvania Veteran Heavy Artillery

The Advance Position 2nd Pa. Vet. Heavy Art. July 30, 1864.

Went into action July 30, 1864, 780 men - answered roll call. After battle 286 men; Lost killed and wounded 494 men, including 8 officers.

Marker can be reached from Siege ...

Major General James B. McPherson

(Right):Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson.

Atlanta.

July 22, 1864.

(Left):Erected by his comrades

of The Society of

The Army of the Tennessee

Marker is at the intersection of I Street NW and 15th Street NW, on the right when traveling ...

Mount Independence

Bastion of the Revolution

Fortification was begun in June of 1776, and the name Mount Independence was bestowed following the Declaration of Independence. Lieut. Col. Jeduthan Baldwin was the chief construction engineer. Here the exhausted American Army, Northern Department, was stationed ...