40th Illinois Infantry

McDowell's Brigade - Sherman's Division

(front)

Illinois

40th Infantry

1st Brigade -- McDowell

5th Division -- Sherman

Army of the Tennessee

(back)

40th Illinois,

Commanded by

1. Col. S. G. Hicks, Wounded.

2. Lieut. Col. J. M. Boothe.

Occupied this, their third position, about 12.00 M., April 6, 1862, and held it ...

43rd Illinois Infantry

Raith's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

43rd Illinois Infantry,

Raith's (3d) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was engaged here from 12 M. to 2 P.M. April 6, 1862. It then fell back to Jones Field.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Hoover Home

1879 - 1884

The Hoovers bought a home on this site in 1879. During the winter Theodore, herbert and Mary enjoyed sledding with the Peter Smith youngsters who lived in the green house just south of here. Jesse Hoover died in ...

Marshall J. Moore House

In 1900, Marshall Moore and his wife, Agnes V. McClain commissioned Joseph G. Nesbitt,Sr., an African- American contractor/builder, to construct this Victorian period cottage. The Moores, among the first graduates and early faculty members of Lincoln Normal School in Marion ...

Monument Row

We bring to a close

We tried to fine

We must now impose

Units not found

748th Tank Battalion

105th Station Hospital

538th Ordnance Company

166th Quartermaster

629th Quartermaster

Marker is on Broadway Avenue (Arizona Route 72 at milepost 27) south of Main Street, on the right when traveling ...

To Herbert Hoover

President of the United States

Native son of Iowa

Citizen of the world

Statesman

Humanitarian

Engineer

Administrator

Who has worn the world's greatest honors with humility

The State of Iowa

grants the

Iowa Award

Marker is on North Downey Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

11th Iowa Infantry

Hare's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

11th Iowa Infantry,

Hare's (1st) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was engaged here, with the 11th and 20th Illinois, about noon April 6, 1862, in the capture of Cobb's Kentucky battery of six guns. ...

Civil War

Ironically, the Third System forts, built to protect the U.S. coastline from foreign aggression, were never fired on by another country, but some were attacked by American rebel forces. The Civil War started in April of 1861 when Confederate cannon ...

Marsh's Brigade

McClernand's Division

U.S.

45th Ill., 48th Ill., 20th Ill., 11th Ill.,

Marsh's (2d) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

At 12 P.M., April 6, 1862 this brigade, with its regiments in order as above, charged the enemy and recovered its camp. Its right ...

Roxbury

Charles City County, Virginia

Roxbury was named for a nearby plantation in New Kent County and reached by Longbridge over the Chickahominy. This community was the site of a colonial era tavern and the only railroad station in Charles City County ...