First Brigade

First Division - Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps First Division

First Division

Col. William S. Tilton

18th. 22d. Massachusetts 1st. Michigan

118th. Pennsylvania Infantry

July 2 In position in column with the Division and Corps on the Baltimore Pike near Rock Creek until after ...

22nd Massachusetts Infantry

1st Brigade, 1st Division

(Around Upper Facings):22nd Mass. Infty.

1st Brigade

1st Division

5th Corps

(Left):First Colonel

Henry Wilson

succeeded by

Jesse A. Cove

Killed June 27, 1862.

(Back):The

22nd Mass. Infty.

stood here

July 2, 1863

Marker is on Sickles Avenue, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The State House of South Carolina

[Left Inscription]

Construction of this State House was begun in 1855 and continued uninterruptedly to February 17, 1865 when Sherman burned Columbia.

Work was resumed in 1867 and carried on irregularly to 1900.

[Right Inscription]:

The architect of this State House was

John R. Niernsee

born ...

Postle Family Cemetery

1829-1870

There are 48 known members of the Postle family buried in the cemetery. Their stories are interwoven with the history of Prairie Township, Franklin County, and Ohio. In 1810, Shadrach and Anna Stacia Postle were among the first settlers of ...

Fort Nonsense

To protect his army and supplies from a British attack, General George Washington ordered the construction of a small fortification on the hill overlooking Morristown during the Spring of 1777. This became known as the “upper redoubt” and included a ...

Route of the Twentieth Corps

On the morning of Nov. 23, 1864, the main body of the 20th Corps of the Union Army, commanded by Gen. A. S. Williams, reached Milledgeville from Eatonton. The Corps marched down Jackson Street to this point where companies were ...

32nd Massachusetts Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

Here the

32nd Massachusetts Infy.

2nd Brig. 1st. Div. 5th A.C.

withstood an attack of the enemy

about 5 o'clock p.m. July 2, 1863

Withdrawn here, it fought again in the

Wheatfield

Lost in both actions

killed and wounded

79 out of 227 officers and men

Marker ...

Historic Lake Pepin: Birthplace of Waterskiing

"I decided that if you could ski on snow, you could ski on water." In 1922, after first trying barrel staves, then snow skis, eighteen year old Ralph W. Samuelson succeeded in waterskiing on eight foot long pine boards, steamed ...

The French are Coming

General George Washington and Colonel Alexander Hamilton are advised at Morristown by the Marquis de Lafayette that the French are coming to support the American cause.

May 10, 1780

Marker is on South Park Place, on the left when traveling north. ...

The First General Assembly of Virginia

In honour of

The First General Assembly

of Virginia,

here

on the thirtieth day of July A.D. 1916.

Summoned by Sir George Yeardley,

Governor General of Virginia,

under authority from the London Company, pursuant to the charter granted by King James I, was convened in the church ...