16th Iowa Infantry

Miller's Brigade - Prentiss' Division

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Iowa

To Her

16th Infantry

Miller's (2d) Brigade.

Prentiss' (6th) Division.

Army of the Tennessee.

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16th Regiment Infantry Volunteers,

Commanded by Col. Alexander Chambers, (Wounded),

Lieut. Col. Add H. Sanders.

This regiment early in the morning of April 6, 1862, formed on the bluff at ...

War Comes to Valley Forge

The British Raid

Just upstream is the site of the Valley Forge, for which this area was named. The Continental Army used the forge to store foods and weapons. Three months before the winter encampment, the British swept through on September ...

Henry Davis Pearce

(June 4, 1845 - December 8, 1911)

Born in Illinois. Came to Texas 1856. Joined Confederate Army in New Orleans, 1861; fought in siege of Vicksburg (1863), in Battle of Mansfield (1864), and at Pleasant Hill, LA., where he was captured. ...

Robert Lee Cemetery

Established in 1891, two years after the founding of the city of Robert Lee, developers L. B. Harris and Eugene Cartledge, as president and secretary of the Austin & Northern Land & Cattle Company, on Sept. 29, 1892, sold for ...

Indian Reservation

1630 - 1930

These four and one-half acres have never belonged to the white man, having been set aside in 1728 as an Indian Reservation by the forty proprietors who purchased the Praying Indian town of Hassanamesit.

Marker is on ...

Bronte Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to the veterans of all wars who freely and courageously joined in the great world-wide conflicts for the preservation of peace, freedom and democracy

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Texas Route 158) and Railroad Street, on the ...

Amelia Springs

Two Days of Action

Union cavalry under Gen. Henry E. Davies, Jr. left Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s column near Jetersville on April 5, 1865, on a reconnaissance mission against the Army of Northern Virginia. Davies swept by here, rode through Paineville, ...

Pursued Beyond the Battlefield

After the battle, Cornwallis’s exhausted infantry held the field while Tarleton and his cavalry chased the Americans, capturing hundreds and killing untold others. Loyalists living north of Camden rounded up more patriot prisoners, turning them over to the British. Tarleton’s ...

Amelia Springs

Two Days of Action

Union cavalry under Gen. Henry E. Davies, Jr. left Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s column near Jetersville on April 5, 1865, on a reconnaissance mission against the Army of Northern Virginia. Davies swept by here, rode through Paineville, ...

Third Cliff

1630 - 1930

The first plantations at "Satuit" were laid out by the Men of Kent before 1628 on this cliff, which was then much more extensive.

Marker is at the intersection of Collier Road (a one-way street) and Cliff Avenue, on ...