Battery E, 4th U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Battery E, 4th U.S. Artillery.

Capt. Joseph C. Clark Jr., U.S.A. Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

At daybreak Battery E, 4th U.S. Artillery, was in bivouac in rear of the high ground east of the Burnside Bridge. Soon after daybreak it took position on ...

The Double File Trail (Georgetown)

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Payne-Shoemaker Building

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The Battle of Ox Hill

The Death of General Kearny

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Sannoner Historic District Medical Arts Building

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The Fight for North Anna / The North Anna Battlefield

(west side of Marker):

The Fight for North Anna

On May 21, 1864, Union General Ulysses S. Grant directed the Army of the Potomac away from Spotsylvania Court House in a turning movement toward Hanover Junction, today known as Doswell. The ...

Van Buren County Poorhouse

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John Berry, Frontiersman

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The Battle of Ox Hill

Attack of General Birney’s Brigade

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Grave of Brig. Gen. Aaron W. Grier

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