Longstreet's Command

Kershaw's Brigade, McLaws' Division

C.S.A.

Longstreet's Command.

Kershaw's Brigade, McLaws' Division

Brig. Gen. J.B. Kershaw, commanding.

Organization.

2d, 3d, 7th, and 8th South Carolina Infantry's

(September 17, 1862.)

About 9:45 a.m. the 2d, 7th, and 8th South Carolina of Kershaw's Brigade charged out of the woods and across ...

Sam Bass' Death Site

An uneducated Indiana orphan who drifted to Texas as a youth, Sam Bass won fame racing his swift “Denton Mare”, gambling, and robbing trains. A rich haul in Nebraska was followed by months of reckless spending. Bass liked to shower ...

Captain Richard C. Bradford

On December 6, 1861, Gov. John Milton signed a law changing the name of New River County to Bradford County. The Legislature had passed the law in honor of Captain Richard G. Bradford of Madison who was killed October 9, ...

Bagdad Cemetery

Opened 1857 with burial of 3-year-old John Babcock, whose father Charles later gave tract to community. Other early burials were Civil War veteran John Haile and Col. C. C. Mason.

Leander, founded 1882 when railroad bypassed Bagdad, shares use of this ...

First United Methodist Church of Florence

In 1856, Florence was a small settlement of log cabins and a store or two. It also has a stone building (300 ft. ESE), used as a church and meeting place, on land donated in 1845 by John C. Caskey. ...

Jenks and Martindale Grocery

Alfred Blacklidge was the original owner of this building. The original building burned in 1885. In the early 1900's. Blacklidge was extending credit to surrounding sharecroppers, when bad times came, forcing many of the farmers to default on their debts, ...

Embarcadero – St. Louis

A short distance down-stream from this spot, at the head of navigation on the banks of Sonoma Creek, an early landing place was established. From the 1830’s hides and tallow from the Pueblo of Sonoma were shipped to Yerba Buena ...

87th Infantry Division Monument

To the men of the

87th Infantry Division

Whose supreme sacrifice in the

world wide conflict for liberty

and freedom during World War II

shall not pass unheralded

Erected by the

87th Infantry Division Association

September 29, 1956 A.D.

Joseph Nash Belack

National Commander

Marker is at the intersection of South ...

Martindale Hotel

Built in 1838 by Ezekial Tyner to house his store room and counting room where he acted as agent for canal trade, housing his family in the addition to the rear. He then purchased the land from David Mount in ...

“A Great Struggle is Now Impending”

The Breakthrough Trail

The Union high command began making preparations to attack the Confederate lines on the Boisseau Plantation shortly after the capture of the Rebels’ picket line on March 25. Final orders arrived on the afternoon of April 1 for ...