Sons of Charleston Confederate Monument

(North face)

In Memory

of the sons of Charleston

who

fell around her walls;

who

sleep on many battlefields

in

Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania,

Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia,

Louisiana, Mississippi, and

North Carolina

and who

lie in distant graves around

their Northern prisons.

— ...

The Old Council Tree

One hundred and fifty feet north of this site stood The Old Council Tree known for years by the Indians of the Fox River Valley as such and under whose spreading branches the Indians and Whites held council.

The tree was ...

First National Correctional Congress / Declaration of Principles

Side A: First National Correctional Congress

On this site in October, 1870 a group of enlightened individuals dedicated to the reformation and improvement of penal systems met. This first Congress of the National Prison Association, now known as the ...

National Historic Landmark - Savannah Historic District

REGISTERED NATIONAL

HISTORICAL LANDMARK

Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 this site possesses exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the history of the United States.

Unknown Confederate Dead

Here sleep, known but to God, 250 Confederate and two Federal soldiers, most of whom died of wounds, disease and sickness in the Confederate hospitals located here - 1862-1864.

These men were wounded in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, ...

Daniel Boone Trail Marker

#26

Donated to the Town of Blowing Rock in loving memory of two brothers and Blowing Rock's sons, Paul and Glenn

Coffey by the Coffey Family

This monument was erected two blocks north of this site on September 1, 1927. ...

The Statue of Liberty Division

World War II

The 77th Infantry Division trained at Fort Jackson in 1942 and fought on Guam, Leyte, Kerama Retto, Ie Shima and Okinawa. Returning to Cebu, they took 6,500 Japanese prisoners. They then returned to occupy Hokkaido, Japan where the ...

Confederate Dead

In this cemetery are buried about 300 unknown Confederate soldiers who died of wounds or disease in the several Confederate hospitals located in Cassville. These hospitals operated from late 1861 until May 18, 1864, then moved south out of the ...

Pickett Bridge

First built in 1857 as a Military Bridge by Captain George E. Pickett

Marker is on DuPont Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of Odelltown

Following the failure of the 1837 rebellion, a faction of the patriote party gathered in the United States under the leadership of Robert Nelson to proclaim the Republic of Lower Canada and plot the overthrow of the government. Their invasion ...