History Of Childersburg

Childersburg traces its heritage to the Coosa Indian village located in the area. DeSoto, accompanied by 600 men, began his march across North America in June 1539. Traveling from Tampa Bay, Florida, northward through what became the Southeastern United States, ...

Battle of Dingles Mill

Memorial Park

Battle fought at this site Apr. 9, 1865 Dedicated Saturday Jan. 27, 1979 3 P.M.

Sponsored by Dick Anderson Chapter No. 75 (1896) United Daughters of the Confedercy

Wm. E. Brunson III, noted War Between The States Arms and Records collector, ...

Sybil Ludington

Sybil Ludington

On April 26, 1777 this brave sixteen

year-old girl rode through the

enemy-infested countryside for

thirty miles in Putnam County, New

York, to warn the local militia that

British troops were attacking and

plundering Danbury, Connecticut.

Donated by Anna Hyatt Huntington

Marker is at the intersection ...

Longstreet's Command

Barksdale's Brigade, McLaws' Division

C.S.A.

Longstreet's Command.

Barksdale's Brigade, McLaws' Division.

Brig. Gen. William Barksdale, Commanding.

Organization.

13th, 17th, 18th and 21st Mississippi Infantry.

September 17, 1862.

Barksdale's Brigade crossed the Potomac at Blackford's Ford about daybreak of the 17th and halted in the western suburbs of Sharpsburg ...

A Fierce Tangle in Morgan's Woods

March 7, 1862 - Late Afternoon

...this battle...was a mass of mixed up confusion from beginning to end...Would to God it was night or reinforcements would come.

William Watson, sergeant, 3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment

Four regiments of volunteers from Arkansas and Louisiana, moving ...

Standard Township

Starting as a Mi-Wuk village, Standard was ranchland during the gold rush era, when the murderous Jim Lyons lived here. In 1909 Xavier Fassler sold his 567-acre dairy ranch to Standard Lumber Co. By the 1920’s the town had been ...

Paraje De Fra Cristobal

The mountain range seen along the east bank of the Rio Grande is named after Father Cristobal de Salazar of the 1598 Juan de Oñate expedition. The northern edge of the twenty-one mile range is said to resemble the profile ...

Vásquez de Coronado’s Route

In 1541 an expedition from the army of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, New Mexico’s first explorer, marched south 80 leagues to investigate the pueblos along the lower Río Grande. The group reached that part of the infamous Jornada del Muerto, ...

Ridgeland Baptist Church

( Front text )

This church was organized February

28,1892, by Revs. W.H.Dowling and

J.T. Morrison with nine charter

members. It was admitted to the

Savannah River Baptist Association

with Rev.Dowling as its first

minister. The congregation held

services in the Masonic hall

until 1894, when it built its ...

First Brigade

Second Division - Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps Second Division

First Brigade

Col. Hannibal Day

3d. (6 Cos.) 4th. (4 Cos.) 6th. (5 Cos.)

12th (8 Cos.) 14th. (8 Cos.) U.S. Infantry

July 2 Moved left in front with the Division late in the ...