China Burma India Hump Aircrews

In memory of those United States

and Allied personnel who flew the

Himalayas in the China Burma India theater in World War II

Courtesy hmdb.org

Gettysburg Campaign

On June 26, 1863, Gen. R.S. Ewell, with orders to take Harrisburg, marched his army by this road toward Carlisle, which he reached next day. On June 29, he was ordered to rejoin Lee's army at Cashtown.

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Battle of Plum Run Bend

On May 10, 1862, Confederates defeated the Union navy in one of only two Civil War gunboat fleet engagements on the Mississippi River, ramming and sinking two Union ironclads, Cincinnati and Mound City. A reinforced Union armada routed the outnumbered ...

Darbytown Road / Pioneer Baptist Church

The Battle of Darbytown Road, 7 Oct. 1864, was the last large Confederate offensive north of the James River. Gen. Robert E. Lee personally supervised the operation. Attacking from the west astride the Darbytown Road, Lee’s infantry shattered the right ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Here on June 22, 1863, the First N.Y. Cavalry attacked the Southern advance force of cavalry under Gen. A.G. Jenkins. Here died the first Union soldier killed in action in Pennsylvania. Corporal William H. Rihl of Philadelphia serving in a ...

Powhatan

In this vicinity is believed to be the birthplace of Wahunsunacock, better known as Powhatan. A village stood nearby that also bore the name Powhatan. By the time the English arrived in 1607, Powhatan was acknowledged as the paramount chief ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate troops occupied Waynesboro June 23, 1863. Next day they marched by Mont Alto to Greenwood, or Black Gap, where, June 25, they were ordered by Gen. Ewell to march to York.

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Hopsewee

Thomas Lynch, Jr., signer of the Declaration

Of Independence, was born here Aug. 5, 1749.

He was elected from St. James Parish, Santee,

to 1st Provincial Congress, Dec. 19, 1774; to

2nd Provincial Congress, Aug. 7-8, 1775; to

the Continental Congress, Mar, 23, ...

VFW Post 9460 Memorial

VFW

Raymond T. Goldbach

Post No. 9460 Stratford, Conn.

In Memory

For all those who gave their lives

in all wars

Marker is at the intersection of Barnum Avenue (U.S. 1) and Veterans Boulevard (Longbrook Avenue), on the right ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Over this route Confederate General R.S. Ewell's 2d Army Corps led Lee's invading forces on June 22, 1863. Next day Gen. Jubal Early, under Ewell's command, entered the state to the east, near Waynesboro.

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