Twelfth Army Corps

Gordon's Brigade, Williams' Division

U.S.A.

Twelfth Army Corps.

Gordon's Brigade. Williams' Division

Brig. Gen. George H. Gordon, Commanding.

Organization.

2d Massachusetts Infantry,

3d Wisconsin Infantry,

27th Indiana Infantry,

13th New Jersey Infantry,

107th New York Infantry,

Zouaves D' Afrique, Pennsylvania.

September 17, 1862, No. 1

Gordon's Brigade formed line at daybreak on the ...

The Siege of Petersburg

"I would not believe before I came here that man was capable of enduring so much."

-Lawrence Bradley, 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery

If Petersburg fell, the Confederate capital at Richmond would fall too. Grant knew it; Lee knew it. And for nine ...

Washington Park Statue

One Hundred and Nine

Thousand Citizens Gave

This Statue to Their City

Dedicated

Armistice Day 1925

Rededicated

Armistice Day 1932

The Two Hundredth

Anniversary Year of the

Birth of George Washington

Marker is at the intersection of Grand Boulevard ...

Depot Field Hospital

Union Medical Care at its Best

“I think this is a very good place with the exception of too many lice.” - Stephen P. Chase, 86th New York Volunteers.

Lice may have been the only problem the staff of the Depot Field ...

Mill Creek Baptist Church

Site of

Mill Creek Baptist Church

Organized prior to 1742

Grand-parent of

First Baptist Church

Martinsburg, West Va.

Marker is on Baptist Church Alley 0.1 miles south of Geraldstown Road (West Virginia Highway 51).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Thompson Settlement Church

This Baptist Church, a mile southeast, is the oldest church in Lee County. It was organized in 1800; the original site was on Powell’s River, a short distance west. John Kinney was the first pastor. The church was removed to ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

Completed in 1847. The oldest original church building standing in Rutherford County. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Marker is at the intersection of N. Main Street and 6th Street, on the right when traveling north on ...

Historic Bethabara Park 1753

(Community Garden)

Welcome to the Historic Bethabara Park Community Garden. Restored in 1990, this garden is the only well-documented colonial community garden in America. The original frontier garden of the Moravian settlers was established in 1754 to nourish the community that ...

Firehouse Engine Company No. 33

This 1898 firehouse, designed by Ernest Flagg and W.B. Chambers, is a striking example of the French Beaux Arts style of architecture. At the time of construction it was also the headquarters of the Chief of the Fire Department. The ...

Pershing Rifles

General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces to Europe in World War I, was Professor of Military Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln between September 1891 and June 1895. Upon his arrival in Lincoln, which was to ...