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The Battle of Buffington Island

July 19, 1863

Morgan's Cavalry Division - Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan

Duke's Brigade - Col. Basil Duke

2nd Kentucky Cavalry (Maj. Thomas Webber)

5th Kentucky Cavalry (Col. D. Howard Smith)

6th Kentucky Cavalry (Lt. Col. John Warren Grisby)

9th Tennessee Cavalry (Lt. Col. William W. ...

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The Battle of Buffington Island

July 19, 1863

Morgan's Cavalry Division - Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan

Duke's Brigade - Col. Basil Duke

2nd Kentucky Cavalry (Maj. Thomas Webber)

5th Kentucky Cavalry (Col. D. Howard Smith)

6th Kentucky Cavalry (Lt. Col. John Warren Grisby)

9th Tennessee Cavalry (Lt. Col. William W. ...

The Badlands Wall

The Badlands Wall constantly retreats north as it erodes and washes into the White River Valley below. The Wall, an intricately carved cliff, divides the upper from the lower prairie.The wall is more than sixty miles long. It is the ...

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Army of the Cumberland

June 24-26, 1863

Moving south about 3 mi. E., the XX Federal Corps (McCook) was stopped at Liberty Gap, 6 mi. S.E., by the 5th & 15th Arkansas Inf., of Liddell's Brigade, later reinforced by Cleburne's Division. With its 1st (Jeff ...

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Engagement at Sutherland Station

On the morning of 2 Apr. 1865, Union forces arrived here by way of Clairborne Road and found Maj. Gen. Henry Heth’s Confederate division entrenched on Cox Road. During the day, Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles’s division made three distinct ...

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The Barrel Landing Schoolhouse

The name Barrel Landing (also spelled Barrell) comes from a nearby docking and landing area on the Okatie River initally used by early settlers of the Okatie community in the period following the Revolutionary War. Farmers and tradesmen used the ...

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Mount Pleasant Press - The J. Horace McFarland Company

Located in this building at Mulberry and Crescent Streets was what became known as the "Switchboard of America," the printing business and national clearinghouse operation of J. Horace McFarland (1859-1948), one of Harrisburg's most famous national figures during the first ...

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Homeland of the Kanza Indians

As early as the 1600s, the Kanza (or Kaw) Indians migrated from their home east of the Mississippi River and up the Missouri River into what is now northeastern Kansas. In the 1700s, the Kanza occupied two villages on the ...

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The First Landing of Filipinos in the Continental United States

Historic Site

During the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade Era from 1565 to 1815 Spanish galleons crossed the Pacific between the Philippines and Mexico.

On October 18, 1587, the Manila Galleon Nuestra Senora de Esperanza commanded by Pedro de Unamuno entered Morro Bay near ...

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Wetland Habitats of the Past

Little Bean Marsh Conservation Area

July 4th Wednesday (1804)

...proceeded on, passed the mouth of a Bayeau lading from a large Lake on the S.S. which has the appearance of being once the bed of the river & reaches parrelel for several ...

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