Evans' Brigade, Longstreet's Command

C.S.A.

Evans' Brigade, Longstreet's Command.

Brig. Gen. Nathan G. Evans, Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Evans' Brigade continued in support of the artillery during the morning of the 17th, covering the approaches to Sharpsburg by the Boonsboro Pike. At 7:30 a.m. Geo. T. Anderson's Brigade, ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

On Jan. 21, 1933 President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed an immense crowd a this crossing from his railroad car and promised "to put Muscle Shoals back on the map." He then toured the idle U.S,. Nitrate Plant No. 2 and ...

Our Confederate Dead

Rivers Bridge State Park

Most of the Confederates killed here were Georgians,

and most were unknown when they were reburied. But

the local community remembered them as " our

Confederate dead, " the fallen heroes of a common cause. The monument placed over ...

Wilson Brothers Building

Charles A. and Frank J. Wilson, brothers from Wisconsin, built and established their businesses in this building by 1888. The building originally housed a furniture store on one side, a feed store on the other and a miners' boarding house/living ...

Weinstein Building

Around the mountain from the mining camp of Cable in 1866 came Polish-born merchant William Weinstein with a wagon-load of goods to sell. He became Philipsburg's first general merchant, constructing the eastern half of this building in the late 1870s ...

Third Brigade

Second Division - Third Corps

Army of the Potomac

Third Corps Second Division

Third Brigade

Col. George C. Burling

2d. New Hampshire 5th. 6th. 7th. 8th. New Jersey

115th Pennsylvania Infantry.

July 2 Arrived between 9 and 10 a.m. and joined the Division. Between 2 and 3 ...

Bandstand

Public parks sprang up as a response to the increasingly polluted urban environments created by the industrial revolution in the 1800s.

Urbanization and industrialization began to change American life by the 1840s. Large, open, green areas were planned to offer city ...

Philipsburg Historic District

Philipsburg's early-day fortunes ebbed and flowed with mining. Today, its historic district is one of Montana's best preserved late-19th-century mining towns, with commercial, public and private buildings dating from the boom period of silver mining. Silver was discovered south of ...

Pope’s Chapel United Methodist Church

The Methodist Society, which was later organized into Pope’s Chapel Church, was first organized in August 1786 by Thomas Humphries at the home of James Marks located in what is now Elbert County about 1 ½ miles Northeast of Baker’s ...

Rivers Bridge State Historic Site

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The Legacy of Total War

From January to March in 1865 more than

60,000 Union soldiers led by General

William Tecumseh Sherman marched

across South Carolina. They brought

total war to the state, destroying

railroads, factories and farms and

attacking civilian ...