Lieutenant Colonel Ronald A. Kennedy

The Breakthrough

Lieutenant Colonel Ronald A. Kennedy

5th Vermont Infantry, 2nd Brigade,

2nd Division (Getty), Sixth Corps

Resident: Concord, Vermont

Enlisted: June 18, 1861

Kennedy and his men passed this very spot during their attack on April 2, 1865. He described the action that occurred here: ...

U.S. Grant Historic District

U.S. Grant and U.S. Grant Comme[mo]rative Sites Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places 6 August 1998.

The historic district includes:

President U.S. Grant Birthplace-1820-1821

Grant Birthplace Memorial Park-1925-1928

Grant Memorial Bridge-1925-1927

Lee Thompson Caretakers House-1820

Caretakers Garage-1936

WPA constructed limestone retaining walls, ...

Tuscaloosa First United Methodist Church

Organized 1818 by Ebenezer Hearn. First building on this site erected in 1834 included a church bell moulded in Boston by coppersmiths Paul Revere and Sons. Present structure with marble Ionic columns was constructed 1922; Education Annex in 1953; Chitwood ...

Edith Bolling Wilson

Edith Bolling Wilson was born here on 15 Oct.

1872, where she lived with her parents Judge

William H. and Sallie White Bolling and ten

siblings. Edith Bolling married Norman Galt in

1896 and after his death in 1908 she operated

his Washington, D.C., jewelry ...

Old Town Hall and Opera House

This brick building is a fine vernacular interpretation of the Classic Revival style. Completed in 1892, the construction was financed through a $10,000 bond issue; this included an artesian well nearby. The lower floor contained a council room, market, guard ...

Battery 5 of the Dimmock Line

In 1862 – two years before the first Federals appeared at the city’s gates – Confederate Captain Charles Dimmock oversaw the construction of a ten-mile line of defensive works ringing Petersburg. In front of you is Battery 5 one of ...

Fort Mill Ridge

General Information

Fort Mill Ridge is a Union fortification constructed between March and June, 1863, to defend the Mechanicsburg Gap and South Branch Potomac Valley. The remains of the fortification have been undisturbed over the past 135 years and are among ...

1st Lieutenant Evander McNair Robeson

The Breakthrough

1st Lieutenant Evander McNair Robeson

Company K, 18th North Carolina

Infantry, Lane’s Brigade,

Wilcox’s Division, Third Corps

Resident: Bladen County, North Carolina

Enlisted: April 1861

A comrade of Robeson’s wrote about the battle on April 2, 1865: “The men of Lane’s Brigade were some ...

Soldiers Buried in Carmel Cemetery

Revolutionary War

1776-1783

Hamilton, Thomas

Hamilton, Anne K.

Florida War

1836

Hamilton, D.K.

War Between the States

1861-1865

Boggs, T.H.

Boggs, T.E.

Davis, John O.

Ellenberg, H.J.

Fennell, T.G.

Grice, Daniel

Hinton, J.T.

Hunt, W.P.

Hamilton, J.A.

Hamilton, L.G.

Lay, Chas. M.

McCann, R.J.W.

Russell, T.H.

Russell, T.W.

Richardson, C.P.

Richardson, J.F.

Richardson, W.E.M.

Robinson, J.K.

Sheriff, Thos.

Stewart, S.D.

Stewart, John

Marker is at the intersection of Carmel Church ...

Village of Eadytown

“The Village of Eadytown is the site of the last known Indian tribe in Upper St. John’s Parish. In early 1700 American Settlers, moving inland, settled here and eventually became a vital part of the Community. Fort Schinkin, located on ...