Battle of the Bulge Monument

Dedicated to the gallant men and women of

the United States Armed Forces who

participated in the “Battle of the Bulge,”

fought in Belgium and Luxembourg during

World War II. The greatest battle ever engaged

in by the United States Army lasted from 16

December, 1944, ...

Trail of Death

Site of the first death of an Indian child on forced removal of Potawatomies Sept. 5, 1838.

Marker is on Indiana Route 25 south of County Route E 400 S, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Sergeant John E. Buffington

The Breakthrough

Sergeant John E. Buffington

6th Maryland Infantry, 2nd Brigade,

3rd Division (Seymour), Sixth Corps

Resident: Carroll County, Maryland

Enlisted: August 1862

Sergeant John Ezra Buffington, with five other men of his regiment, stormed the ramparts of the Confederate works near this position during the ...

“The Cannons’ Flashes Lit Up the Terrible Scene”

The Breakthrough Trail

At various intervals along their lines, Confederate defenders constructed gun emplacements, called redans, such as the one in front of you. Each redan would hold as few as one or as many as six cannons. Virtually every square ...

Lincoln-Haycraft Memorial Bridge

Here along Severn's Valley Creek, Samuel Haycraft, Sr. built mill, raceway in 1796. Thomas Lincoln, father of Pres. Lincoln, employed in building it, received his first monetary wages when about 21 years of age. Abraham Lincoln, age 7, with his ...

Three Forts

Elizabethtown began in 1780, when three forts were built by Samuel Haycraft, Sr., Col. Andrew Hynes and Capt. Thomas Helm for common defense against Indians. The forts were one mile apart, the only settlements between falls of Ohio and Green ...

Confederate Memorial

(Back of Monument - Center):The States of the South

sent to the Battle of Shiloh

seventy nine organizations of infantry

ten organizations of cavalry and

twenty three batteries of artillery

How bravely and how well they fought

let the tablets ...

“Our Line of Battle was so Thin”

The Breakthrough Trail

The Confederate troops who defended this portion of the works belonged to Brigadier General James H. Lane’s North Carolina Brigade. These Tarheels assumed responsibility here on March 30 after McGowan’s Brigade moved several miles west to plug a ...

French's Division, Second Army Corps

U.S.A.

French's Division, Second Army Corps,

Brig. Gen. William H. French, Commanding.

September 17, 1862.

French's Division crossed the Antietam at Pry's Ford about 8:30 a.m. and marched in columns by brigades, Kimball on the right, Morris in the center, and Weber on the ...

General Winfield Scott

General Winfield Scott followed John Wool (1836-1837) and William Lindsay (1837-1838) as commander of Federal troops in the Cherokee nation. Scott arrived at New Echota, Cherokee Nation on April 16, 1838 and assumed command of the "Army of the Cherokee ...