The Battle of White Oak Road

Breaking the Line

The Battle of White Oak Road left the Federals in position to block Confederate reinforcements from reaching their comrades further west. Both the Battle of White Oak Road and the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House were preludes to ...

Early Transportation Routes

The Gwynns Falls Trail follows a valley that has served as both a transportation avenue and an obstacle since the days of American Indians and European colonists. Early roads were privately owned turnpikes that charged tolls; they became public highways ...

Cincinnati's German Heritage

Side A:

Cincinnati, along with Milwaukee and St. Louis, is one of the three corners of the "German Triangle," so-called for its historically high concentration of German-American residents. During the 19th century, Cincinnati was both a destination for immigrants to the ...

Governor Knowles State Forest

The St. Croix River winds its way through wild and scenic countryside from its origin in a Spruce-Tamarack swamp near Upper St. Croix Lake. The waters of the Namekagon join the St. Croix 45 miles upstream from this sign. The ...

The Battle of White Oak Road

The Union Counterattack

As the fight progressed, the Confederates met stiffening resistance. Lee and his subordinates realized they had too few troops to hold their advanced position. They determined to withdraw to the slight earthworks constructed by the Federal soldiers just ...

The Battle of White Oak Road

March 31, 1865

Early on the morning of March 31, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee sent most of a division forward to attack the Federals from this location at White Oak Road. Fighting through the morning, the Confederate brigades enveloped ...

The Irish in Cincinnati

Side A:

Flatboats on the Ohio River brought many of the first Irish, some with land grants received after the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, to the Cincinnati area. In 1789, Francis Kennedy arrived in Losantiville, where he operated ...

The Battle Of Seneca Town / Fort Rutledge

[front]

The Battle of Seneca Town

Seneca Town, on the Seneca River E of present-day Seneca, was one of several Cherokee “Lower Towns.” On August 1, 1776, Maj. Andrew Williamson’s S.C. militia, on a raid against these towns, was ambushed by Loyalists ...

The Battle of White Oak Road

Moving into Position

With their success at Lewis Farm, Union troops gained a foothold on one of Lee’s supply routes, the Boydton Plank Road. It was strategically necessary for the Federals to control this road because it was a major route ...

Williamsburg County Confederate Monument

[North Face]:

[Relief Flag]

CSA

1861-1865

Erected by

Williamsburg, Chapter

U.D.C. and the

citizens of the county,

May 10,1910,

To the memory

of the men of

Williamsburg, County

who fought for

the rights of the

Southern Confederacy

Comrades

[Relief Cannon]

[Relief Crossed Sabres]

Confederate Soldiers

[South Face]:

To the gallant band of

volunteers from Williamsburg

whose courage zeal and

devotion fed the fires ...