Starting Point of the First Traditional New Orleans Mardi Gras P

From this corner on February 24, 1857, the Mistick Krewe of Comus began its first parade, heading up Julia Street toward St. Charles Avenue. With that parade, Mardi Gras was solidified as a New Orleans tradition that ultimately influnced Carnival ...

Recipients of the Purple Heart

Dedicated to the Recipients of the

Nations oldest military decoration

The Purple Heart

Combat Veterans Wounded

1782 Military Order of

The Purple Heart 1932

My stone is red for

The blood they shed.

The Medal I bear

is my country's way

to show they care.

If I could be seen

by all ...

Kennedy-Nixon Taft-Hartley Debate

On April 21, 1947, John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon debated the Taft-Hartley Labor-Management Relations Act at the Penn-McKee Hotel. The first debate between the two House Labor Committee members was a precursor to the iconic Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate ...

Battery A, Second U.S. Artillery

Second Brigade - Horse Artillery - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps

Second Brigade Horse Artillery

Battery A Second U.S. Artillery

Six 3 inch rifles

Lieut. John H. Calef commanding

June 30 Arrived in the evening from Emmitsburg ...

Battery B, First Pennsylvania Artilery

Battery B

First Pennsylvania Artillery

P.R.V.C.

Commanded by Capt. James H. Cooper

4-3 inch rifled guns

July 1, 1863 the Battery arrived here about noon and engaged Confederate artillery on Herr's Ridge. About 1:30 p.m. moved to the rear. Changed front, engaged Carter's Artillery and ...

Hose Cart House

This hose cart house restored March 1974, by Tuolumne Hose Co. No. 1, in memory of those who fought fire and originated the first volunteer fire dept. in the townsite of Summerville in 1885.

Marker is at the intersection of Carter ...

1st Battery Ohio Light Artillery

(Front Face):

OHIO

1st Battery

Light Artillery

Commanded by

Capt. James R. McMullin

Hugh Ewings (1st) Brig.

Kanawha Division

Ninth Army Corps

Army of the Potomac

(Rear Face):

This battery occupied position about 250 yards due west of this.

Marker is on Burnside Bridge Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

Union Artillery

Porter posted his batteries intermittently along this ridge. Most of his guns were twelve-pounder Napoleons like the two here.

“The woods were full of smoke,” wrote a Massachusetts artillerist, “and thicker and thicker buzzed the bullets.” Soon the Confederate infantry appeared. ...

2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery

Connecticut Remembers Her Fallen Sons

Late on the afternoon of June 1, 1864, Col. Elisha Strong Kellogg and his 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery attacked Confederate entrenchments to the west along with other Federal troops from the Sixth and the Eighteenth ...

Battery L, 1st New York Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade

(Front):"Reynolds"

Battery L.

1st N.Y. Light

Artillery,

Artillery

Brigade

1st Corps.

(Back):Casualties

July 1st, 1863

Near Chambersburg Pike

1 Killed,

15 Wounded,

1 Missing.

July 2nd and 3rd engaged with enemy

from position on Cemetery Hill.

Organized at Rochester, N.Y.

Sept. 17, 1861.

Mustered out June 17, 1865.

Marker is on Reynolds Avenue, on the right when ...