Site of J. E. B. Stuart's Death

Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart, C.S.A., Commander of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, died here on May 12, 1864, in the home of his brother-in-law, Dr. Charles Brewer. Cause of his death was a wound received ...

Washington’s Temporary Headquarters

This boulder which lay from time immemorial

on this site near the turn of the old road

marks the location of a house used by

General George Washington

as temporary headquarters

on October 26, 1780

while on march from Totowa now Paterson

to support Lafayette’s expedition against

the ...

Lafayette Headquarters

This stone was the doorstep of the house occupied by Lafayette as headquarters.

Eagle Rock Chapter D.A.R.

1938

Marker is on Valley Road (County Route 621), on the left when traveling south.

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Stuart's Riders Skirt Ashland

On the afternoon of 12 June 1862, Confederate Brig. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's column passed here on a mission to gather intelligence about Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac. Riding northeast toward the Richmond, Fredericksburg, ...

Artillery Brigade

Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps

Artillery Brigade

Col. Charles H. Tompkins

Mass. 1st Battery A, Six 12 pounder

Capt William H. McCartney

New York 1st Battery, Six 3 inch Rifles

Capt. Andrew Cowan

New York 3d Battery, Six 10 pounder Parrotts

Capt. William A. Harn

1st Rhode Island ...

Bartlett, Tennessee

A toll road of 1829 became Stage Road, Bartlett's main street. In 1856 the town was called Union Depot. Incorporated in 1866 and named Bartlett for Major Gabriel Matson Bartlett. Shelby County Courts were held here from 1870-1885. In 1885 ...

Battery G, 1st New York Light Artillery

Battery G

(Ames)

1st N.Y.L.A.

July 3rd 1863.

Marker is at the intersection of Hancock Avenue and United States Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Hancock Avenue.

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McCarty Farm

Battle of Chancellorsville - 1863

Behind you, on the Orange Turnpike, stood the home of Frances McCarty. In 1860, Frances lived here with three members of her family. She owned 120 acres, three slaves, and scratched out a living as a ...

Earthworks

Battle of Chancellorsville - 1863

"We were digging and fortifying all night."

Charles E. DeNoon, Mahone's Brigade

Civil War earthworks, sometimes referred to as breastworks, were built in a fashion much different than modern military trenches. Soldiers started at ground ...

Barton Springs

Clear and icy, these springs over the years have drawn Indians, pioneers, and tourists to this spot. The waters are brought from the limestone strata to the surface by the Balcones Fault, which bisects Central Texas. Average flow is 27,000,000 ...