Third Brigade

Third Division - Second Corps

Army of the Potomac

Second Corps Third Division

Third Brigade

Col. George L. Willard

Col. Eliakim Sherrill

Lieut. Col. James M. Bull

39th (4 cos.), 111th, 125th, 126th. New York Infantry

July 2 Took position in the morning along Cemetery Ridge at the ...

The Widow Tapp House

The Tapp Farm exemplifies the lifestyle of most Wilderness residents. Catharine Tapp, age 55 in 1860, leased her land from the Lacy family who owned nearby Ellwood. The Widow Tapp shared her modest 1-1/2 story log home with five relatives ...

Saint Peter’s Churchyard & Old Van Cortlandtville Cemetery

Saint Peter’s Churchyard

Church built in 1767

and

Old Van Cortlandtville Cemetery

adjoining on the southeast

In this burying-ground are interred

Forty Four known soldiers

in the war of the American Revolution.

There is a monument to

John Paulding

erected ...

Federal Junction

Sherman’s Left and

Right Wings joined

forces here during the

afternoon of March 20,

1865. They constructed

works across the road

and skirmished with

the Confederates.

Marker is on Harper House Road (Local Route 1008), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Rail Lines at Tredegar

Nearly all of the materials shipped to and from Tredegar moved by railroad after the Civil War. The company’s small fleet of industrial switcher locomotives moved car loads along the spur lines that connected Tredegar to the outside world. Over ...

Elliott Academy

Established here in 1869 as Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Presbyterian Board of Missions as boarding school for children of Choctaw Freedmen. Academy succeeded small school begun in 1860 by ex-slave and Presbyterian Minister Charles W. Stewart to serve numerous ...

Wabash County (Indiana) Honor Rolls

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Forever Honoring our heroes

who gave their lives - - and

Dedicated to the men and women

of Wabash County who served

their Country in armed conflict

Erected by the grateful

Citizens of Wabash County ...

Garland Cemetery

Small cemetery nearby contains graves of Choctaw chief Samuel Garland (1862 – 64) and family members including his mother-in-law, Sophie Pitchlynn. Peter Pitchlynn, son of Sophie and John Pitchlynn, was chief 1864 -- 66. Garland migrated from Mississippi during Choctaw ...

Military Road - Choctaw Trail of Tears

Cut from Washington, Ark., to Fort Towson in 1831 for removal of Choctaws from Miss., became known is Choctaw Trail of Tears after thousands of suffering Indians used it to reach new lands. Road served as major east-west artery for ...

Old Town Hall

Built on site of the "State House," burned 1831, where the North Carolina Convention of 1789 ratified the Federal Constitution.

Marker is at the intersection of Green Street and Market Square, on the right when traveling north on Green ...