The Largest Fort

Fort Fisher was the largest of the more than 30 forts that studded the Union siege lines. It included nearly 2,000 feet of parapet and could mount 19 guns. The boom of a single gun in this fort on the ...

Battle of Raymond

May 12, 1863, on Fourteen Mile Creek, 2,500 Confederate troops under Gen. John Gregg attacked a 10,000 man corps under Gen. James B. McPherson. Outnumbered, Gregg was forced to withdraw to Jackson.

Marker is on Mississippi Route 18 0.1 miles west ...

Fort Conahey

“This fort has cost more labour than any other, has afforded an admirable lesson in engineering, and is one of the sights to show to strangers. Further than this I doubt the value of its elaborateness.”

- Col. Charles Wainwright, ...

Our Lady of Sorrow World War II Memorial

This tablet is dedicated in tribute to the men and women of our parish and community who so honorably served their country during World War II.

The dedication is followed by the many names of those from the parish that gave ...

Undertaker's Office

Life in the mid 1800s was difficult. The average age of death in the United States of America was around 40 years old. Disease, accidents and hard work took its toll on people lives.

This exhibit displays artifacts, dating from the ...

Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library

Designed by the architect William Schickel and built in 1883-1884, the Ottendorfer Library was the first building in Manhattan to be erected specifically as a free public lending library. The building combines elements from several late Victorian architectural styles and ...

Nineteenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

The position of this regiment in line of battle was 119 yards S.S.E.

and is represented by its monument.

The 19th Massacusetts and 42d New York Regiments

were the first troops to attack Pickett's Division in flank.

"Passing at this time Colonel Devereux, commanding ...

Fifteenth Massachusetts Vounteer Infantry

The position of this regiment in line of battle

is marked by its monument

235 yards due south.

It charged up to this point and attacked Pickett's

Division in flank as his troops were coming

over the stonewall.

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left ...

Seven Mile Ford

The place takes its name from the highway ford on the Holston, seven miles west of Royal Oak. The land here belonged to General William Campbell, hero of Kings Mountain, 1780. It descended to the wife of John M. Preston. ...

Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

The position of this regiment in line of battle

was 125 yards S.S.W.

which is represented by its monument.

When Pickett's Division pierced the Union line

this regiment retired by its right flank,

faced left, and rushed up to this copse of trees

and attacked Pickett's ...