Battery Point Lighthouse

In 1855, the year after Crescent City was incorporated, the California legislature urged the state's delegation in Congress to pass an act to erect lighthouses at “Trinidad and Crescent City." On March 3, 1855, Congress appropriated $15,000 for the construction ...

Meridian's "C" Battery

Monday, September 4th, Labor Day, 1950 at 9:30 p.m. 125 local Marine Reserves of Meridian's "C" Battery, 4th 155mm Howitzer Battalion U.S.M.C.R. held their last local muster here at the old Union Station enroute to Camp Pendleton, California and ...

Battery Bartlett

Battery Bartlett was built in the 1890's atop the fort's original earthen ravelin (triangular fortification in front of the bastions). A major upgrade to earlier batteries, it protected the Nantasket Roads and the Narrows Channels into Boston and the deep-water ...

Great Chain Battery

Chain

Battery

1778

Marker can be reached from Pitcher Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battery Heights

Second Battle of Manassas

As General Rufus King's Union division marched eastward along the Warrenton Turnpike (U.S. Route 29 today), they came under fire from Confederate artillery on the distant ridge. Captain Joseph Campbell's Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery wheeled off ...

Hill Cliff Battery

The Revolutionary Army fortified this hill in 1776 to provide more firepower down river and to maintain communication between Gravel Hill Battery to the east and the Fort Constitution area to the west. Hill Cliff Battery mounted from three ...

Romans’ Battery

Intended as the west curtain of the never-completed Fort Constitution, “the . . . battery is a straight line constructed by Mr. Romans, at very great expense; it has fifteen embrasures, which face the river at a right angle, ...

Marine Battery

Built in early 1776, Marine Battery was destroyed in October 1777. The following year the battery was partially reconstructed on the surviving rampart to protect the Great Chain, which was probably anchored in the cove below.

This 10 foot ...

Corput's Georgia Battery

Capt. W.W. Carnes' Artillery Battalion.

Corput's Georgia Battery

Four 12 Pounder Napoleons.

Capt. W.W. Carnes' Artillery Battalion.

Stevenson's Division. - Breckinridge's Corps.

Nov.24, 1863, 2 P.M.

Capt. Max Van Den Corput, Commanding.

1st Lieut. M.S. McWhorter.

2nd Lieut. W.S, Hoge.

2nd Lieut. J.E. Stilwell.

2nd Lieut. W.A. Russell.

About 1 A.M. ...

Calvert's Arkansas Battery

Maj. T. R. Hotchkiss' Artillery Battalion.

Calvert's Arkansas Battery

Two 6 pdrs., Two 12-pdr. Howitzers.

Maj. T. R. Hotchkiss' Artillery Battalion.

Cleburne's Division.

1st Lieut. Thomas J. Key Commanding.

1st Lieuts. R. Fitzpatrick and W. M. Hopwood.

2d Lieut. J. G. Marshall.

Nov. 25th, 1863. Noon

The battery occupied ...