Bicentennial Commons at Sawyer Point

Welcome to a spectacular recreational area created as a gift from the people of Cincinnati to the people of Cincinnati in honor of the city's Bicentennial in 1988.

Originally, this land was an untouched tree-covered bank along a bend in the ...

Crawfordville Baptist Church

This, the first Protestant Church in the Taliaferro area and originally called Bethel, was established in 1802 by Rev. Jesse Mercer and Rev. James Matthews on land given by William Janes, one of Georgia's largest planters. The first pastor was ...

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 ...

Governor David Campbell

David Campbell was born in Aug. 1779 at Royal Oak in Washington County (present-day Smyth County), Virginia. His family eventually moved to Hall's Bottom outside Abingdon. Campbell served in the infantry during the War of 1812 and was promoted to ...

Williamson's Brigade

Osterhaus' Divsion

Williamson's Brigade

Osterhaus' Divsion - Blair's Corps

Col. James A Williamson

Nov 24, 1863

4th Iowa - Lieut. Col. George Burton.

9th Iowa - Col. David Carskaddon.

25th Iowa - Col. George A. Stone.

26th Iowa - Col. Milo Smith.

30th Iowa - Lieut. Col. Aurelius Roberts.

31st ...

Norris Geyser Basin

Beautiful and Bizarre

As you walk through Norris Geyser Basin, you may feel as if you are encountering another world. In the basin—far below the towering peaks of the Gallatin Mountains—water accumulates underground. Heated by the Yellowstone Volcano, the water travels ...

Woods' Brigade

Osterhaus' Divsion

Woods' Brigade

Osterhaus' Divsion - Blair's Corps

Brig. Gen. Charles R. Woods

Nov. 24, 1863

13th Illinois - Lieut. Col. Frederick W. Partridge.

3rd Missouri - Lieut Col. Theordore Meumann.

12th Missouri - Col. Hugo Wangelin.

17th Missouri - Col. John F. Cramer.

27th Missouri - Col. ...

Congaree River Bridges

This river took its name from the Congaree Indians, a Siouan tribe which occupied the valley until the Yamassee War in 1715. The first wooden bridge here was completed in 1827. It was burned to delay the advance of Sherman's ...

Carlin's Brigade

Johnson's Division

Carlin's Brigade.

Johnson's Division, Palmer's Corps.

Brig. Gen. William P. Carlin.

Nov 24, 1863

104th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Douglas Hapeman.

38th Indiana, Lieut Col. Daniel F. Griffin.

42nd Indiana, Lieut. Col. William T.B. McIntire.

88th Indiana, Col. Cyrus E. Briant

2nd Ohio, Col. Anson G. McCook.

33rd Ohio, ...

Gervais Street Bridge

The first bridge at Gervais Street was a covered wooden structure built in 1827 by the Columbia Bridge Company. It remained until 1865 when Confederate soldiers burned it and other bridges to delay the

advance of Sherman's troops. Rebuilt in ...