51st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

51st

Pennsylvania

Volunteer

Infantry

2nd Brigade 2nd Division

9th Corps

Location 385 yards South

70 Degrees East

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Casualties at Antietam

Killed 21

Wounded 99

Total 120

Recruited in Montgomery

Northampton Union Centre

Lycoming and Snyder

Counties

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Battles Participated In

Roanoke Island

Newbern - Camden

Second Bull Run

Chantilly

South Mountain

Antietam

Fredericksburg

Vicksburg Jackson

Cambell's Station

Knoxville - Wilderness

Spotsylvania

North Anna - Cold Harbor

Petersburg - The Crater

Reams ...

Presidential Convention

The Whig Convention of Dec. 1839 met in this church and nominated Wm. Henry Harrison for president, John Tyler for vice-president. Popularized as "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", they were elected, 1840.

Marker is on Fourth Street, on the right when traveling ...

Camp Alger

In May 1898 the Spanish-American War came to Northern Virginia with the establishment of Camp Russell A. Alger (below). The 1,400-acre camp, south of where you are now located, encompassed the fields and forests of the former Woodburn Manor farm.

Some ...

Leonia Patent

This section of Leonia was purchased from the Indians by Captain John Berry under a patent dated 1669. Capt. Berry was governor of Nova Caesarea (New Jersey) 1672-3.

Marker is at the intersection of Grand Avenue (County Route 93) and W ...

Strawberry Square Phase II

This block of historic buildings traces a glimpse of Harrisburg's 19th and 20th Century retail development. Restored as Phase II of the Strawberry Square shopping complex in the late 1980's and part of the Old Downtown Harrisburg Commercial Historic District, ...

Provident Savings Bank

This imposing building, appropriately designed by Joseph Evans Sperry to suggest an old treasure chest, is the home of Provident Savings bank, the father of branch banking among mutual savings banks of the nation. Incorporated in 1886 with the exalted ...

Old Dauphin County Courthouses

Two Dauphin County Courthouses occupied this site at the intersection of Market St. and what was originally known as Raspberry Street, later appropriately renamed Court Street. John Harris, Jr.'s original plan for Harrisburg set aside this land for use by ...

Major General John P. C. Shanks

1826 —————— 1901

In Memory

of

Major General

John P. C. Shanks

Congressman, Lawyer, Citizen.

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street and North Court Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.

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Bernard von Kapff

Bernard von Kapff (1770-1829) put his stamp on early Baltimore as a merchant, public figure and leader of the German community. A native of Detmold in northern Germany, von Kapff established a tobacco importing business in 1795, and later joined ...

Fourth New York Independent Battery

Artillery Brigade - Third Corps

Army of the Potomac

Third Corps Artillery Brigade

Fourth New York Independent Battery

Six 10 pounder Parrotts

Capt. James E. Smith Commanding

July 2 Arrived from Emmitsburg at 9 a.m. Four guns posted on the heights above Devil's Den at 2 ...