First Brigade

First Division - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps First Division

First Brigade

Col. William Gamble

8th. 12th. Illinois (4 cos.) 3rd. Indiana

(6 cos.) 8th New York Cavalry

June 30 Started early for Gettysburg and encountered two Mississippi regiments and a section of Artillery ...

Federals at Barnesville

As Wilson’s Federal Cavalry moved toward Macon, near this spot on Wednesday, April 19, 1865, some of them attacked a small Confederate force, “The Dixie Rangers.” Greatly outnumbered, “The Rangers” fought with gallantry, gradually withdrawing from the field. A detachment ...

Walk in the Footsteps of History

This one-mile walking trail covers historic ground that witnessed two weeks of intense fighting in June 1864. It winds through earthen fortifications built more than a century ago. The Cold Harbor battle raged over thousands of acres, and this loop ...

Fort Howell - 1864

An excellent example of the defensive earthworks common to the civil War era, Fort Howell was constructed by Union Forces occupying Hilton Head Island and was one of the final fortifications to be built during the war.

The men of the ...

"Lest We Forget"

In memory of those

from Stafford County

who served during

the Civil War

"Lest We Forget"

Courtesy hmdb.org

St. Florian Historic District

In 1872, Father A. J. Houser, Director of the Homestead Society of Cincinnati, Ohio founded St. Florian. He subdivided the land for German immigrants who became independent landowners, built homes and reared their families. Many of the descendants from that ...

Smith–Buckstaff

This site donated

by

John and Lois Smith

and the heirs of

John and Sarah Buckstaff

Erected by the Smith School

Parents and Teachers Association 1933.

Marker is on Oregon Street (Alternate U.S. 41) south of West 17th Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jaffa Gate

Old City Jerusalem

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Jaffa Gate is the westernmost of the gates in the walls of Jerusalem. It is so named as the starting point of the road to Jaffa port. Its Arabic name, Bab al-Khalil, ...

142d Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):142d

Pennsylvania

Infantry

1st Brigade

3rd Division

1st Corps

(Back Left of Cross):

Present at Gettysburg 336 Officers & Men

Killed & died of wounds 4 officers 27 men

Wounded 10 officers 100 men

Captured or missing 2 officers 68 men

Total loss 211

(Back Right of Cross):Total enrollment ...

4th and 12th U.S. Infantry

U.S.A.

At 10 A.M., September 16, 1862, four companies of the Fourth United States Infantry crossed the stone bridge over the Antietam at this point and took position behind the rock ledge and barn on the left of the road and ...