Captain Denis Cottineau De Kerloguen

In Honor and Grateful Memory of

Captain Denis Cottineau De Kerloguen

who was born in Nantes, France and died in Savannah Ga.,

November 20, 1808, aged 63 Years. In the war for American Independence

he fought with John Paul Jones in the famous battle ...

1st Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters

Andrew's Sharpshooters

1st. Andrew

Sharp-shooters.

Unattached Mass. Vol.

in action

July 3rd. 4th. & 5th. 1863.

in different positions.

In God we put our trust.

But kept our powder dry.

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

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The Bermuda Campaign

May 1864

As part of Ulysses S. Grant’s overall strategic plan to win the Civil War, Gen. Butler’s Federal army advanced up the James River in the spring of 1864 in an effort to operate against Richmond from the south while ...

Reeves Homeplace

A Close Encounter

(Preface):

On March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to disrupt the Confederate supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, the North Carolina ...

Orton Plantation

House built c. 1725, subsequent additions. Home first of Roger Moore, later of Gov. Benjamin Smith, still later of James Sprunt. ¾ miles east.

Marker is at the intersection of Plantation Road and Orton Road, on the left when traveling south ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition Across Missouri

"Groops of Shrubs covered with the most delicious froot is to be seen in every direction, and nature appears to have exerted herself to butify the Senery by the variety of flours [flowers] Delicately and highly flavered raised above the ...

The John Jay Potting Sheds

John Jay Homestead

After the American Civil War, the nation experienced tremendous economic growth in agriculture and industry. In the 1870s, the refrigerator car was introduced, and farmers expanded their market opportunities. Farming became big business. Between 1865 and 1890, ...

Ninth Army Corps

U.S.A.

Ninth Army Corps.

Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox, Commanding.

September 17, 1862.

On the morning of the 17th, Durell's Battery D, Pennsylvania Light Artillery took position on the ridge to the right of Benjamin's and both engaged the Confederate Batteries posted on the ...

Ninth Army Corps

U.S.A.

Ninth Army Corps

Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox, Commanding.

September 15-16, 1862.

The Ninth Corps moved from Fox's Gap in South Mountain by the Sharpsburg Road, on the morning of September 15 and in the evening encamped in rear of the extreme left ...

High Point

Approximately 424 feet west southwest lies

the geographic “high point” between

Goldsboro and Charlotte. Identified

by the survey crew for the North

Carolina Railroad about 1849, the

elevation became the city namesake

upon the granting of a city charter

on

May 26, 1859

Dedicated on the 125th

Anniversary of the ...