59th New York Infantry

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):59th

New York

Infantry,

3d Brig. 2d Div.

2d Corps.

(Left):Commanders:

W.L. Tidball,

M.A. Thoman,

H.P. Rugg,

W.A. Olmstead.

(Back):Four companies

of this regiment

held this position

July 2 and 3 1863,

where Max A. Thoman,

Lieut. Colonel in command,

fell mortally wounded.

Casualties;

killed 6, wounded 28.

(Right):Mustered in

July 4, 1861.

Participated in

23 Engagements.

Mustered out

June 30, ...

Lacey's Fort

[Marker Front]

Col. Edward Lacey (1742-1813), prominent officer in the American Revolution in the S.C. backcountry, occupied this hill west of Turkey Creek in the late summer of 1780. Lacey, who commanded S.C. militiamen in the battles of Rocky Mount, Cary's ...

Abram Frederick Biggers and Biggers School

Abram Frederick Biggers (1838 - 1879), a lawyer by profession, was appointed the first superintendent of the Lynchburg and Campbell County schools in 1870. As a part of his effort to build a strong system, Biggers toured northern states to ...

The Clayton Post Office

The Clayton Post Office, established on October 4, 1861, is one of the oldest post offices in continuous operation in California. Ensuring its continuation in Clayton was one reason for incorporating the city in 1964.

During the past 140 years, ...

Federal Hospital

The 1865 home of Wm.

Smith, 100 yds. E., was

used as a hospital for

Union troops in the

Battle of Averasboro,

March 15-16, 1865.

Marker is at the intersection of Burnett Road (North Carolina Route 82) and Ross W Road (North Carolina Route 1801), on ...

Town of Sharon Stone Marker

According to tradition, after the Battle of Kings Mountain, troops led by Colonel Edward Lacey retired to the high hills of Bullock's Creek. In 1876 York historian Rev. Robert Lathan fixed that location to be north of Scott's Mill, about ...

Second Battle of Independence

October 1864

After heavy fighting at the Little Blue River on the 21st, Price's Confederate army forced Blunt's cavalry to retreat to the Big Blue River, leaving a rear guard in town. Shelby's Confederates reached town in the late afternoon. After ...

Safe Haven in Lynchburg: Project Y

In 1951, the National Gallery of Art established a secret emergency repository (Code named Project Y) for its distinguished collection of art on the campus of Randolph-Macon Woman's College. The specially designed reinforced concrete building, situated at the end of ...

Confederate Cemetery

In this lonely spot lie the mortal remains of more than 100 unknown soldiers of the Confederacy. Most of them were wounded while heroically defending the City of Atlanta against overwhelming forces of General Sherman, and died in an improvised ...

"Tyrants Fall In Every Foe Liberty's In Every Blow"

In the memory of our Scotish forebears, whose valor inspired these immortal lines by Robert Burns, this marker is gratefully dedicated by the Saint Andrew's Society of Savannah, Georgia on its 250th Anniversary.

(1737 - 1987)

3 May 1987

Marker is at the ...