Oakwood Cemetery Confederate Section

After the First Battle of Manassas, Richmond appropriated this approximately 7.5 - acre lot on 12 Aug. 1861 for burial of Confederate war dead. These Soldiers from every Southern state either died in Richmond's military hospitals, such as Chimborazo, or ...

Construction of Fort Mill Ridge

On March 16, 1863, Col. Campbell ordered his command to move their encampment from Romney to the fields adjacent to Mill Creek immediately west of Mill Ridge. Sheltered between the mountain to the west and the ridge, the camp was ...

West Battlefield Overlook

(Panels from Left to Right)

(First Panel):

At the time of the battle, Nancy Morton lived with her parents in the William Morton house west of this location. When the fighting intensified in the area, the Mortons and three other families scrambled ...

Timberswamp Farm

Capt. Geo. Winters Homestead

ca. 1848

National Register of Historic Places

Marker is on Jackson Valley Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Calhoun Falls World War I and II Veterans Monument

[North]

In Memory of

those who lost their

lives in World War

I and II

[South]

Burton, Harold A.

Clark, Marshall L.

Clark, Paul

Cox, Clarence W.

Davis, Broadus

Hagood, Martin D.

Hilley, Jack

Hilley, James

McClellan, Sam

McNain, James

Norris, E. Boyce

Tucker, David O.

Taggart, George

Marker is on South Calhoun Street (South Carolina Route 81) near ...

Fort Stedman

In the last grand offensive movement of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, Fort Stedman, with adjacent works, was captured at 4:30 A.M., March 25, 1865, by a well selected body of Confederates, under the command of General John B. Gordon.

An ...

Confederate Winter Quarters

The Breakthrough Trail

Brigadier General Samuel McGowan’s South Carolina Brigade spent the winter of 1864-1865 very close to the fortifications they defended. A temporary scarcity of building materials in the early winter compelled many of McGowan’s men to rely on their ...

Battle of Griswoldville

On Nov. 22 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of Gen. Sherman’s army [US] marched southeast from the vicinity of Gray toward Gordon and Irwinton on its destructive March to the Sea. To protect the right against Wheeler’s ...

End of the First Day

July 1, 1863 - First Day

"The enemy gave way on all sides, and was driven through Gettysburg with great loss."

Gen. Robert E. Lee, C.S.A.

Commander, Army of Northern Virginia

Infantry and artillery of the Union Eleventh Corps formed in the valley below ...

Defending Fort Haskell

Daylight on March 25, 1865, brought furious fighting to Fort Haskell.

“Our thin line mounted the banquette – the wounded and sick loading the muskets, while those with sound hands stood to the parapets and blazed away.”

- George L. Kilmer, ...