First Brigade

Third Division - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps Third Division

First Brigade

Brig. Gen. Elon J. Farnsworth

Col. Nathaniel P. Richmond

5th. New York 18th. Pennsylvania

1st. Vermont 1st. (10 Cos.) West Virginia Cavalry

June 30 Arrived at Hanover about noon and was attacked by ...

Jornada del Muerto

On the Camino Real

This stretch of the Camino Real leaves the Río Grande and cuts across 90 miles of desert with little water or shelter. Despite its difficulty, the dreaded “Journey of the Deadman” was heavily used by Spanish, Mexican, ...

Theobald Wolfe Tone

(1763-98)

An Irish patriot convicted of treason. He died mysteriously in prison in November 1798.

The memorial consists of a ten-foot figure of Wolfe Tone backed by a wall of rough granite columns of varying width and rising to 16 feet in ...

Battle of Griswoldville The Deployment and Assaults

About 1:30 P.M. Nov. 22, 1864, after halting in Griswoldville to reform his column and report his progress, Brig. Gen. P.J. Phillips began moving his command (1st Division, Georgia Militia and attached units) east to clear the town, intending to ...

French 75 Millimeter Feldhase

This 1916 gun was used by the American Expeditionary Forces in World War 1 as part of a horse drawn caisson. During the war, American forces were loaned guns, planes, and other equipment from the French arsenal.

This gun was moved ...

Dorchester Academy Boy's Dormitory

his Georgian Revival building, built in 1934 to replace an earlier structure destroyed by fire, was once part of an extensive school campus begun in 1871 by the American Missionary Association. The school, founded to serve the educational needs of ...

The Ready Boat Pillar

Sculpted by Seán O'Dwyer

Seeing the meaning

When viewing a piece of sculpture one can see many different layers of meaning. The clues given here are only the first layer of meaning and are meant only as a gateway through which you ...

A Tribute To All U.S. Military Personnel On This Day Of Infamy

In memory of the 2403 men

who gave their lives in

our military forces during

the attack on Pearl Harbor

and other military bases

7 December 1941

A tribute to all

U.S. Military Personnel

on this Day Of Infamy ...

Dorchester Academy

Formal education of blacks started with the Freedmen's Bureau in Liberty County. The Homestead School was continued with the aid of the American Missionary Association (AMA) and support of Reconstruction legislator William A. Golding. The AMA started with one acre ...

Interior of the Central Redoubt

The central redoubt consists of a square earthen platform or rampart, and earthen walls, or parapets. Cuts in the parapets, or embrasures, provided openings through which cannons could fire. The remains of the embrasures can be seen on the southern ...