Camp Ford Confederate Guards

The initial guards at the camp were local militia commanded by a regular officer, Captain S.M. Warner. With the

arrival of the Fordoche prisoners in October 1863, their numbers were inadequate, and an independent Cavalry

company, the Walter P. ...

Kentish Guards Drill Field

1774-1974

Kentish Guards Drill Field

To those Kentish Guardsmen who in 1774 utilized this field to prepare themselves for the conflict that assured our independence. This tablet was dedicated on the 200th Anniversary of the Kentish Guards October 19, 1974

Marker can be ...

Commander in Chief’s Guards

An Elite Security Force

Always present, Washington’s guard occupied huts here. This special detachment was created to protect the Commander in Chief, his official family, and his equipment, supplies, and papers. Washington required that each life guard, as they called themselves, ...

Fort Gaines Guards

Organized in 1836 under the command of Col. J. E. Brown, for 74 years the Fort Gaines Guards was one of the best and, later, the oldest military organization in western Georgia. Kept intact between wars, the Guards fought in ...

Guards

Each day’s guard reported here for inspection, a short drill, and the daily parole and countersign. From here they relieved the previous day’s guard.

The camp guard – 27 men from every 2 regiments – surrounded Jockey Hollow with a chain ...

Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and Marines of African and Asian-Pacifi

Cooks, Stewards, and Messmen

In memory of all U.S. Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and Marines of African and Asian-Pacific Descent who honorably served officers as cooks, stewards and messmen on U.S. Navy ships and bases and who valiantly manned battle stations during ...

Fort Coombs - Franklin Guards

The Franklin Guards, a company of Infantry organized in Apalachicola in 1884 by J. H. Coombs and Fred Betterfield, erected the first building in the city to be used solely as an armory in 1898. Made of simulated brick, it ...

39th New York Infantry (Garibaldi Guards)

3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps

(Front):39th

New York

Infantry,

(Garibaldi Guards)

3rd Brig. 3d Div.

2d Corps.

(Back)This Regiment at about

7 o'clock P.M. July 2d 1863.

Being ordered to support

General Sickles' line.

Charged and drove the enemy

Recapturing the Guns and

Equipment of Battery I.

5th U.S. Artillery.

A stone tablet marks

the ...

Savannah Volunteer Guards

Organized 1802

As infantry the Corps fought in the War of 1812, Indian Wars and as a battalion in 1861, serving with distinction in defense of Savannah and Charleston. In the spring of 1864 joined Lee's Army at Petersburg. On April ...

The Columbus Guards

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Site, of the last armory of the Columbus Guards, a noted military company chartered by the Georgia Legislature in 1843 and organized in 1835. They served voluntarily in the Indian War, 1836; the War with Mexico, 1846; the War Between ...