Shielding the Army

Where are the Confederates?

The mountains provided Gen. Robert E. Lee with cover. As his army of 75,000 men and 272 pieces of artillery rumbled north through Washington County, the U.S. Army commander did not know his whereabouts because South Mountain, ...

Gadsden Amphitheater

Through the efforts of local citizens, Benny Dean and Floyd Beddingfield, the City of Gadsden obtained this facility from American Legion Post Number 5 in 1985. Built in 1935, the amphitheater seats 1600 persons. Designed by local architect, Paul W. ...

Mount Bethel Church

The Presbyterians established a church near here in 1792. At first called the Mountain Church in 1808, it became the nucleus of Presbyterian work in Hampshire County under the auspices of the Rev. John Lyle. The Rev. James Black reorganized ...

The 32nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment Civil War Monument

The 32nd Indiana at the Battle of Rowletts Station

On December 17, 1861, the "1st German" 32nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel August Willich, fought Confederate cavalry, infantry and artillery units south of Munfordville, Kentucky, near Rowletts Station. ...

The First National Bank and Trust Company of Western Maryland

was originally chartered as the Cumberland Bank of Alleghany by an act of the 1811 Maryland Legislature and opened for business April 1, 1812. this is the oldest bank in Western Maryland and the second oldest National Bank in the ...

Savannah in the American Revolution

When political dissent evolved into armed

revolution in America, Oglethorpe's colony

had only been in existence for four decades.

Georgians confronted the same political and

economic issues associated with British

taxation as the more established colonies. A

general deterioration of Royal authority

intensified when news of ...

The Xzanders G. McFarland House and McFarland Gap

Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail

Mr. Xzanders Gordon McFarland of Walker County(Rossville Georgia) was a slave holder. So when the Civil War took his two oldest sons into the army, he gathered his slaves, his four teenage daughters and his stock and ...

German POWs in the East Texas Timber Industry

The U.S. Army began building POW camps in the United States in early 1942 for captured Axis prisoners. During World War II, the Army shipped almost 425,000 military prisoners to 511 camps in the U.S. Approximately 50,000 of those POWs, ...

The Gallant Pelham

The Battle of Fredericksburg

Young, handsome, and modest, Major John Pelham was one of the most popular men in the Confederate army. He was also one of its premier artillerists. Time and again the twenty-four-year-old officer had engaged the enemy at ...

William Luther Sibert Major General U.S. Army (Ret.)

1860-1935

This is the site of the family home of Gadsden native General William Luther Sibert who played a major role in the construction of the Panama Canal. While serving in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he was appointed chief ...