First Marine Division – FMF

Dedicated

To those men of the

First Marine Division – FMF

Who gave their lives

in the service of

their County

World War II, Korea, Vietnam

Southwest Asia

Marker can be reached from West McCabe Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Division War Memorial

[Inscriptions on the original memorial (1924)]

First Division, United States Army, American Expeditionary Forces, June 1917 - September 1919.

Erected by the memorial association of the First Division and patriotic friends to the memory of the dead of the division ...

First Division

Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps

First Division

Brig. General Horatio G. Wright

First Brigade Brig. Gen. Alfred T.A. Torbert

Second Brigade Brig. Gen. Joseph J. Bartlett

Third Brigade Brig. Gen. David A. Russell

July 2. Arrived about 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. the Second Brigade ...

First Division

Second Corps

Army of the Potomac

Second Corps

First Division

Brig. General John C. CaldwellFirst Brigade Col. Edward E. Cross, Col. H. B. McKeen

Second Brigade Col. Patrick Kelly

Third Brigade Brig. Gen. Samuel K. Zook, Lieut. Col. John Fraser

First Division

Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps

First Division

Brig. General James Barnes

First Brigade Col. Wm. S. Tilton

Second Brigade Col. J.B. Sweitzer

Third Brigade Col. Strong Vincent, Col. Jas. C. Rice.

July 2. Crossed Rock Creek in the morning and was massed on Baltimore Pike ...

Ricketts' Division, First Army Corps

U.S.A.

Ricketts' Division, First Army Corps,

Brig. Gen. James B. Ricketts, Commanding.

September 16, 1862.

Ricketts' Division crossed the Antietam at the Sumner Bridge on the afternoon of Sept. 16, and moved in a westerly direction toward the Smoketown Road.

At 6 p.m., Meade's Division ...

First Brigade, Cavalry Division

U.S.A.

First Brigade, Cavalry Division.

Major Charles J. Whiting, 2nd U.S. Cavalry,

Commanding.

Organization.

5th and 6th United States Cavalry.

(September 17, 1862.)

The Fifth United States Cavalry, Captain Joseph H. McArthur commanding, crossed the middle bridge over the Antietam shortly before noon and took position on ...

First Division

First Corps

Army of the Potomac

First Corps

First Division

Brig. General James S. WadsworthFirst Brigade Brig. Gen. Solomon Meredith, Col. Wm. W. Robinson

Second Brigade Brig. General Lysander Cutler

July 1. Arrived at 10 a.m. The First Union Infantry on field. Formed across Chambersburg Pike ...

First Division

Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps

First Division

Brig. General John Buford

First Brigade Col. Wm. Gamble

Second Brigade Col. Thos. C. Devin

Reserve Brigade Brig. Gen. Wesley MerrittJune 29 Engaged in picketing scouting and patrolling westerly and northerly to Hagerstown. Finding no Confederate force ...

Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps

U.S.A.

Doubleday's Division, First Army Corps,

Brigadier Gen. Abner Doubleday, Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)Doubleday's Division, on the right of the First Corps, moved to the attack at 5/30 a.m., September 17, in the following order: Gibbon's Brigade in advance, supported ...