“A Stupendous Failure”

“It is agreed that the thing was a perfect success, except that it did not succeed.”

- Major Charles F. Adams, Jr., USA

The explosion cleared the Union path to Petersburg. But instead of pushing through, the first waves of Union ...

U.S. Forces Liberate Manila

To the Heroes of Manila

Late in the afternoon of February 3, 1945 two groups of the flying column of the 1st Cavalry Division, including the attached 44th Tank Battalion, entered Manila, with the first group taking possession of Malacanang Palaca ...

King and Queen County Confederate Monument

To the Confederate soldiers

and sailors of King and Queen

County Virginia 1861-1865

Fate denied them victory but gave

Them the love and veneration of

Their native land. The wonder

And admiration of the world.

Marker is at the intersection of Courthouse Landing Road (Route 655) and ...

Essex County Confederate Monument

Erected

To soldiers of Essex and those who fought with them.

They fought for the principles of state sovereignty

And in defense of their homes.

To maintain these rights the gallant sons of this

Gallant county marched gladly to the front and

Did their duty like ...

Governor John B. Floyd

John Buchanan Floyd, son of Governor John Floyd (1738-1837), was born in Montgomery County on 1 June 1806. He represented Washington County in the Virginia House of Delegates (1847-1849) and served as governor of Virginia (1849-1852). Floyd was appointed U.S. ...

A Fatal Error

A division of African-American troops in Burnside’s Ninth Corps was to have led the attack that followed the explosion of the mine. But just hours before the assault, Union army commander George G. Meade changed the plan. The result: chaos ...

Burial Place of Twenty-Nine Confederate Soldiers

Erected by the United States

to mark the burial place of

twenty-nine Confederate soldiers

who died at Fort McHenry, Maryland,

while prisoners of war,

and whose remains were there buried,

but subsequently removed to this section,

where the individual graves

Laura's Dugout Home on the Banks of Plum Creek

The Charles Ingalls Family's dugout home was located here in the 1870's. This depression is all that remains since the roof caved in years ago. The prairie grasses and flowers here grow much as they did in Laura's time, and ...

John Cogswell and Family

Near this site on August 14, 1635,

John Cogswell and family from

Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England,

first set foot in America.

They arrived on the ship Angel Gabriel,

which was wrecked here on the

following day in a violent storm. The

family settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Dedicated on ...

The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church

The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church was organized on this site in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South of Gadsden, Alabama

November 16, 1870

Bishop Robert Pain, presiding

The Centennial Convocation of the Conference was held here on November 16, 1970

Bishop ...