Blackwater Line - Joyner's Ford

Confederate forces guarded this Blackwater River crossing from 1862 to the end of the Civil War. On 12 Dec. 1862, Capt. J. H. Sikes and soldiers of Company D, 7th Confederate Cavalry, were captured during a dismounted skirmish with elements ...

5th Wisconsin Volunteers

(Front Inscription):5th Wis. Vol.

Gettysburg July 2, 3, 4, 5

3d Brig. (Russells')

1st Div. 6th Corps.

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War Losses

174 Killed 548 Wounded

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Col. Amasa Cobb 1861-2.

Col. T.S. Allen 1863-4-5

(Back Inscription):

This regiment moved from the centre to this point early July 3rd to resist threatened attack ...

Civil War Torpedo Boatmen Memorial

In Memory of

The Supreme Devotion of Those Heroic Men

Of the Confederate Army and Navy

First in Marine Warfare

To Employ Torpedo Board

1863 - 1865

Moved by

The Lofty Faith That With Them Died

Crew After Crew

Volunteered

For Enterprises of Extremest Peril

In the Defenses of Charleston Harbor

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Of ...

University Circle

Named for the streetcar turnaround once located at Euclid Avenue and East 107th Street, University Circle is a 600-acre district that is home to many of Cleveland's major cultural, educational, medical, and service institutions. The area was first settled in ...

"Bow and Arrow"

The rock outline you see on the distant bluff is an archeological curiosity. Jacob V. Brower, a Minnesota archeologist, observed this formation in 1902 and interpreted it as a bow and arrow. In 1903 he wrote, "Some of the stones ...

The First Pony Express

This monument erected by the

Daughters of the American Revolution

and

The City of St. Joseph

marks the place where the first

Pony Express started on April 3, 1860

Marker is on Penn Street near South 10th Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ridge Spring Cemetery / W.H. Scarborough

[Front]

This cemetery, dating to the early 19th century, was originally the Watson and Boatwright family cemetery before it was enlarged to become the town cemetery. Many descendants of Capt. Michael Watson (1726-1782) are buried in the walled section, built ca. ...

Blackwater Line - Blackwater Bridge

During the Civil War, Confederate forces guarded this Blackwater River crossing as a part of the Blackwater defensive line. On 14 Nov. 1862, Col. Charles C. Dodge, 1st Battalion New York Mounted Rifles, led his troops in a skirmish against ...

Trinity Episcopal Church

Established by the Rev. Caleb S. Ives

The first church building, a frame structure

built in 1857, was burned by Federal troops

during their occupation of Demopolis.

The present church building was erected in

1870 and forms the nave. The ...

The Cattle (Beefsteak) Raid

One mile southwest, on September 16, 1864, General Wade Hampton's Confederate Cavalry herded about 2500 head of captured cattle across the Nottoway River, while two miles northwest, at Belsches' Mill, Federal troops sent to recapture the cattle were intercepted and ...