Original Hospital Site of Wayside Home

This is the site of Kingston Wayside Home, the first Confederate hospital, established in August, 1861 by the Soldier’s Aid Society and other citizens of this vicinity. More than 10,000 sick and wounded Confederate soldiers received necessary medical attention within ...

Battle Of Emucfau

– 5 miles south ?

Jackson fortified position here during Creek Indian War (1813-1814). Although repeated attacks by the Red Sticks were repulsed, Jackson withdrew with the Indians pursuing.

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 22 East and Church Street, ...

Victims of Communism Memorial,

National Mall and Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C.

“These voices cry out to all, and they’re legion,” President George W. Bush, June 12, 2007"

The Victims of Communism Memorial enshrines the more than 100 million men, women, and children struck down ...

Fake Attack - September 14th

"Stonewall" Jackson understood the principle of military deception. On the second evening of the battle, he used deception here. To lure the Union attention away from the south end of Bolivar Heights, Jackson faked an attack against the north end ...

First New York Battery

Artillery Brigade - Sixth Corps

(Front):Double Canister at ten yards

July 3rd 1863.

Cowans First New York Battery

Artillery Brigade - Sixth Corps.

(Back):Erected in memory of our comrades, July 3rd. 1887.

"The world can never forget what they did here."During the cannonade preceding Longstreet's assault, ...

Destined for Antietam

Text of the marker is arranged to illustrate the movements of the Confederate Army during the Antietam Campaign of 1862:

September 10, 1862 from Frederick, Maryland

Confederate commander Lee sends part of his army to capture Harpers Ferry, while he waits in ...

Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefield at Home

Civil War to Civil Rights

“I have paid the rent of a room in Washington ... retaining it merely as a shelter to which I might return when my strength should fail me under exposure and labor at the field.” Clara ...

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church

This congregation began meeting for informal worship services during the early 1870s at the home of Tempie Washington. By 1873, the thirteen original members were meeting in their own sanctuary on San Antonio street. The Rev. Frank Green served as ...

Famous Indian Path

The Oakfuskee Trail, main branch of the noted Upper Creek Trading Path from the Savannah River to the Creek Indians of Central Alabama, passed this site, running east and west. Beginning at present Augusta, the route led this way via ...

Confederate Hospitals

In February 1864, to relieve the serious overcrowding of Confederate hospitals in the Atlanta and Dalton areas, Columbus was chosen as the site of a 1,500 bed army hospital. Eight buildings on Broad Street, including two saloons and the Court ...