Battlefield House

[Text on First Historic Marker]:

Battlefield House

and

Fifteen and one-half acres of

Parkland

Property of

The women's Wentworth Historical Society

1899-1962

Given by this society to the

Niagara Parks Commission

as a National Historic Site

January 19, 1962

[Text on Second Historic Marker]:

Battlefield Park

Battlefield House (circa 1796)

Battlefield Monument (1913)

Designated under the ...

National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

On 15 March, 1781 the British Army defeated Major General Nathanael Greene at Guildford Court House in one of the most intense battles of the Revolutionary War.

The victory cost Cornwallis over one-fourth of ...

Battle of Dinwiddie Court House

(front)

In Memoriam

Battle of Dinwiddie Court House

Dedicated to the Confederate and Union soldiers who gave their lives in the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House, sometimes called Chamberlain’s Bed, in the last brief victory of the Army of Northern Virginia, March 31, ...

Battle House

Surrender-Role Reversal

Until it was demolished in 1899, the Battle House, a stagecoach house and inn, stood just to your left.

There, on May 7, 1865, a proposed Union surrender was transformed into a Confederate capitulation.

After Col. William C. Bartlett's 2nd N.C. ...

Battle of Clark’s House

Near this site on May 1, 1862, Battle of the Henry Clark House occurred. Lt. Col. Rutherford B. Hayes’ 23rd Ohio Vol. Inf. engaged Confederates under Col. Walter Jenifer. Captain Richard B. Foley, commanding the “Flat Top Copperheads,” the “eyes ...

Stone House – Battlefield Landmark

This building links today’s landscape to the battlefield scene. The roadbeds have not changed; thousands of soldiers noticed the Stone House as they marched through this strategic intersection.

During both battles Federals turned the former tavern into a field hospital. Bloody ...