Lee's Headquarters

Lee's headquarters from the latter part of June, 1864 to September, 1864 were here.

Marker is at the intersection of Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1 / 301) and Arlington Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Jefferson Davis Highway.

Courtesy ...

Soldiers and Sailors Monument

[ inscription on the west face of the base ]

Gettysburg • Port Hudson • Fort Fisher • 1861-1865

[ inscription on the east face of the base ]

Bunker Hill • Bennington • Saratoga • 1775-1783

[ inscription on the south ...

Stuart's Cavalry Division

C.S.A.

Stuart's Cavalry Division.

Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, Commanding.

September 16-19, 1862

On the night of the 16th, Fitzhugh Lee's Brigade of Stuart's Division was in position behind the hill about 650 yards northwest of this point, supporting the horse artillery and extending the ...

Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

Niles, California

“May God continue the unity of our country as this railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.” The gold spike ceremony at Promontory, Utah in May of 1869 united the tracks of the Central Pacific and Union ...

Hampton's Brigade, Stuart's Cavalry Division

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Hampton's Brigade, Stuart's Cavalry Division.

Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton, Commanding.

Organization.

1st North Carolina Cavalry,

2nd Carolina Cavalry,

Cobb's Legion, Georgia Cavalry

Jeff. Davis Legion.

September 17-18, 1862.

Hampton's Brigade reached the field on Sept. 17 and took position on the left of Jackson's Command. Occupying with Lee's ...

Dunlop's Station

At the nearby junction of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad and the Confederate military spur line to Ettrick, stood Dunlop's Station, a Confederate telegraph post and supply depot. During the siege of Petersburg, southbound passengers were detrained here to avoid ...

John and Polly Garrett House

It took John and Polly Garrett five years to build this house. During that five year period, they lived in the small log home to your right. The Garrett's moved into this house in 1835. Four years later, Polly gave ...

The Old North Castle Church

On this site St. Georges Church (“the Old North Castle Church”) was erected in 1761 by the generosity of St. George Talbot, Esq. of New York City and by the missionary zeal of the Rev. James Wetmore of Grace ...

The Village Burying Ground

Established before 1790 holds in many unmarked and unknown graves the remains of those courageous men and women pioneers on the frontier of downeast Maine. Sea captains, fishermen and farmers, shipwrights and hotelmen, selectmen and legislators, their wives and children, ...

Dunlop Station

"...burning cartridges like shooting stars"

Dunlop Station on the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad was located here on the southern boundary of David Dunlop's Ellerslie estate. During the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865, a military rail spur was completed in March ...