28th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

(Front of Monument):

OHIO

28th Infantry

Commanded by

Lieut. Col. Gottsfried Becker

Crooks (2d) Brigade

Kanawha Division

Ninth Army Corps

Army of the Potomac

(Rear of Monument):

This Regiment was conducted by Gen. Crook on a reconnaissance above the Bridge over Antietam Creek on the morning of Sept. 17, 1862, ...

Colonel Mordecai Sheftall

1735 - 1797

As Deputy Commissary General of Issues for Georgia

and South Carolina, Colonel Sheftall was the highest

ranking Jewish officer in the Revolutionary War.

Captured by the British in the Battle of Savannah,

Dec. 29, 1778, Sheftall was imprisoned for ...

The Birth of a River

Nearly 12,000 years ago, the Potomac River was formed as a result of the final glacial episode of the Pleistocene Epoch. At that time, the Potomac River was little more than a tributary of the Susquehanna River. A variety of ...

Fort Sill

Fort Sill was named by General Orders No. 25, HQ, Department of the Missouri, U.S. Army, on July 2, 1869. The post's name honors the memory of Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill, killed at the Battle of Stone River, Tennessee, ...

Barn Bluff

"The most beautiful prospect that imagination can form," wrote 18th century explorer Jonathan Carver about the view from Barn Bluff. "Verdant plains, fruitful meadows, and numerous islands abound with the most varied trees.... But above all, reaching as far as ...

Home Site of Jonathan Law

Near This Site Stood

The Home Of

Jonathan Law

Governor And

Deputy Governor

Of Connecticut

1714 - 1750

Marker is at the intersection of West River Street and River Street, on the right when traveling south on West River Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Griffith Ranch

Originally part of the San Fernando mission lands, this ranch was purchased by David Wark Griffith, revered pioneer of silent motion pictures in 1912, it provided the locale for many western thrillers, including "Custer's Last Stand", and was the ...

Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps

Major General George SykesFirst Division Brigadier General James Barnes

Second Division Brigadier General Romeyn B. Ayres

Third Division Brigadier General Samuel W. Crawford

Artillery Brigade Captain Augustus P. Martin

July 2. Arrived early in the morning and went into position ...

Old Federal Road Historic District

Development along Indian trails of the Old Federal Road began in the early 19th century to improve transportation between South Carolina and Tennessee. Although European settlement in this area began in the late 1700s, the road increased populations and

prompted the ...

The Works of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Compa

On this site in 1891, Thomas Edison developed an enormous complex of mines, crushers, separators, and subsidiary buildings that came to be known as “Edison” or, more properly, “The Works of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Company.” This company ...