Mower’s Charge Reaches Johnston’s Headquarters

In the field in front of you skirmishers from the 64th Illinois, armed with Henry repeating rifles, overran Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s headquarters, forcing the general and his staff to flee on foot toward Bentonville (to your left). Maj. Gen. ...

Federal Right Wing

The rt. wing of the Army of the Cumberland, 14th and 20th A.C., was also the rt. of Sherman´s forces moving on Atlanta from N. & E.

The 14th and 20th, having crossed the river at Pace´s Fy., July 27, 1864, ...

John Rutherfurd

1760 1961

In honor of

John Rutherfurd

1760 – 1840

U.S. Senator from N.J.

1791 – 1798

American patriot and statesman

for whom this borough was named.

Part of his estate, Edgerston Manor,

so named after the family seat in

Scotland, lay within the present

Borough of Rutherford.

Erected by

the people of ...

Westward Ho!

You are traveling in the path of countless men, women, and children who passed this very home in the 1860s! When you turned into the parking lot, you pulled off the Westport Route of the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California ...

United States Mint

Erected 1835

William Strickland, Architect.

John Mitchell and Benjamin F. Fox. Builders.

The building was renovated and fireproofed

1856-59 under the supervision of

Captain Johnson K. Dunkin

On this site stood Fort San Carlos

erected in 1792 by Spanish Governor

84th Regiment Indiana Infantry

1st Brigade-Whitaker — 1st Division-Steedman

[Front Side of Marker]

84th Regiment

Indiana Infantry

1st Brigade-Whitaker

1st Division-Steedman

Reserve Corps-Granger

[Reverse Side of Marker]

Indiana's Tribute

To Her

Eighty-Fourth Regiment Infantry.

Colonel Nelson Trusler, Commanding.

First Brigade (Whitaker).

First Division (Steedman).

Reserve Corps (Granger).

September 18th, this regiment was engaged on the extreme left of the ...

Sheridan Fortifications

In August 1864, Gen. U.S. Grant ordered Gen. Phillip Sheridan to construct earth fortifications on Bolivar Heights. These forts faced northwest to protect against Confederate movements down the Shenandoah Valley to Harpers Ferry. This Sheridan trench is 300 yds. long ...

Shelby Springs Confederate Cemetery

"Old Soldiers Grave Yard"

The Confederate Army established a soldier's home and hospital here (1863-1865) as a part of the CSA Camp Winn Training Site. Father Leray and the Sisters of Mercy staffed the hospital after fleeing Civil War destruction in ...

The Stratford Mill

When Thomas Lee Purchased this one-acre mill site in 1743, nothing remained but the “old mill dam.” By 1745, he had built a mill which operated-off and on-until the Lees sold Stratford in the 1820s. The names of Stratford’s millers ...

Rutherford World War I Monument

To Rutherford’s glorious dead in the World War

August 1, 1914

November 11, 1918

United States

declared war

April 6, 1917

Monument erected

May 1920

Herbert Alexander Barrows • John Frederick Bauer • Harry Clifford Bigelman, Jr. • Herbert Alyea Collins • Walter DeForest • Ferreol Girardey Dorsey ...