Galveston Artillery Club

By 1840, a year after its incorporation, the city of Galveston was home to approximately 1,200 residents, the entry point for scores of immigrants and a major coastal shipping port. Ongoing tensions between the young Republic of Texas and Mexico ...

241st Coast Artillery

Battery C

A siren pierces the air! A German submarine is sighted! Soldiers scramble to their respective positions to defend the eastern entrance of the Cape Cod Canal from enemy attack.

This was only a drill. Enemy vessels were sighted along these ...

Artillery Blind

This stone structure was probably an artillery blind or epaulment (a breastwork to cover troops in front and sometimes in flank) constructed in 1794 to protect gunners from fire from redoubt 4 on Rocky Hill just west and above ...

Artillery and Mortars

The artillery and mortars in Fort Putnam are reproductions of pieces which were in the fort in September 1780. All fourteen pieces were manufactured through the generosity of the Class of 1952, United States Military Academy, 1974-1976.

Marker can ...

Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Preble

Dedicated to the

men and women of

the Coast Artillery Corps

who defended Portland Harbor

at Fort Preble in five wars

from 1808 through 1945

Marker is on Fort Road near McKernan Drive, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

1st U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery

"Ready to Take the Field"

Gen. Davis Tillson raised 1,700-man 1st U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery in Tennessee and North Carolina in 1864. The unit encamped nearby while garrisoned in Asheville in 1865. Assigned to Tillson's 2nd brigade, the men participated in ...

Fifth Regiment of Garrison Artillery

The Fifth Regiment of Garrison Artillery marches down Government Street in December 1915 on their way to the Inner Harbour, where they boarded a steamer to Vancouver. They would join other Canadian troops fighting in Europe in World War I. ...

Revolutionary Artillery Site

To control King's Highway

1777-78

Marker is at the intersection of Cemetery Hill Road and South Lincoln Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Cemetery Hill Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

8th U.S. Heavy Artillery (Colored)

During February 1864, the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army, Lorenzo Thomas, under the direction of the Secretary of War, Edwin L. Stanton, authorized the recruitment of African Americans by the Union Army in Kentucky. The 8th United States Heavy ...

Washington (La.) Artillery

Anderson's Brigade -- Ruggles' Division -- Bragg's Corps

C.S.

Washington (La.) Artillery,

Anderson's (2d) Brig., Ruggles' (1st) Div., Bragg's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This battery was engaged here, and 200 yards in advance, from 12 M. to 2 P.M. April 6, 1862. Its next ...