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, ...

Rainbow Memorial Park

The 42nd Division composed of National Guard units from 26 states and the District of Columbia including Co. "F" Oshkosh, Co. "G" Appleton, Co. "E" Fond du Lac was formed August 1917. The 42nd Rainbow Division was named by Colonel ...

Seven Days Battles

Gaines's Mill

The hill to the south, part of the Union line, was assailed by Stonewall Jackson (with D. H. Hill) in the late afternoon of June 27, 1862, after A. P. Hill's and Longstreet's first assaults on the west had ...

Antebellum Architecture

As the county gained more plantations, Madison attracted nearby planters desiring to shop, socialize, learn, and worship. Some planters also built in-town homes. Antebellum architecture reflected the shift from the early yeoman farmer society to a slave-based plantation economy, dominated ...

Millbrook (Roy-Hardin House)

William Carroll "Cal" Roy (1851-1916) and Annie (Stanley) Roy (1851-1925) bought this Bouldin mill site in 1894 from Powhatan Bouldin, heir of James E. Bouldin (1796-1876), the original owner. It was converted into a home, and here the Roy’s reared ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bethesda Baptist Church

Organized shortly after the Civil War with Rev. Edward Rhue as its first pastor, Bethesda Baptist Church purchased this site by 1867. Construction of this sanctuary began in 1922 during the pastorate of Rev. A.W. Puller and was completed and ...

William Campbell’s Grave

The nearby Aspenvale Cemetery contains

the grave of Brig. Gen. William Campbell,

Revolutionary War soldier, militia commander,

and regional political leader. Campbell was

born in Augusta County, Virginia. in 1745, and

by 1768 he had moved to present-day Smyth

County. During the Revolutionary War, Campbell

led his ...