Dividing Point

Twice during the Siege of Petersburg, Harrison’s Creek became a dividing point between contending armies.

June 15, 1864 After being driven out of the Dimmock Line, the outnumbered Confederate defenders of Petersburg formed a new line on the heights across the ...

Parks Cemetery Ridge Memorial Plaza

Southern Battle Flag

St. Andrews Cross emblazons blue

Across a blood-red field,

Adorned by stars of purest white; Our Souther battle shield.

fly, dear flag, o'er heroes brave

Both living and departed;

Steadfast to the Southern Cause

Our ancestors imparted!

They gave their all, so many died

To keep ...

Battery 8 of the Dimmock Line

On June 15, 1864, after seizing Battery 5, Union troops swept southward along the Dimmock Line. Men of the 1st and 22nd Colored Troops captured Battery 8, overcoming heavy resistance from part of Brig. Gen. Henry A. Wise’s Virginia brigade. ...

Fairfield County Veterans Service Commission Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to all Veterans

Past and Present

Who Served in the

US Military

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 22) and Pearl Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hendersonville / Arab The Horse

Hendersonville

Settled in 1791 and known as Godfrey Savannah, this area later was the summer home for a colony of Combahee River rice planters. The settlement, known as Hendersonville by 1862, was named for Dr. Edward Rogers Henderson, a local ...

The Mounds

Site of two Indian Burial Mounds built between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago by the Adena people. Late 19th century excavations found skeletons, pottery, copper implements, and other antiquities.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Mound Street and Indiana ...

First Secession Meeting Boulder

This stone

marks the spot

where

the

first secession

speeches

were made.

Marker can be reached from Secession Avenue (County Road 01-120) east of Branch Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Batteries C and G, 3d U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Batteries C and G, 3d U.S. Artillery.

Captain Horatio G. Gibson, U.S.A. Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Horse Batteries C and G (Consolidated), 3d U.S. Artillery, crossed the Antietam in the forenoon of September 17, and went into position a short distance south of ...

Battlefield Terrain

The Breakthrough Trail

This bridge spans a small branch of Arthur’s Swamp. The ravine created by this streamlet had important consequences for both the defending Confederates and the attacking Union troops.

The earthen mounds immediately in front of you are the remains ...

Battle of Griswoldville The Advance from East Macon

On Nov. 22, 1864, the 1st Division, Georgia Militia (less the 1st Brigade), with the 1st and 2nd Regiments, Georgia State Line, and Anderson’s Georgia Battery attached, Brig. Gen. Pleasant J. Phillips commanding, marched from East Macon about 8:00 A.M. ...