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Colonel John G. Cullmann

Founder of Cullman, Alabama 1873

Col. John G. Cullmann

July 2, 1823 - December 3, 1895

Thrifty German Colonists led by

Col. John G. Cullmann in 1873

settled this thinly populated plateau

of Alabama.

This plaque and Restoration Sponsored by Cullman Federated Garden Club ...

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Jones' Run For Life

In July 1878, a band of Nez Perce Indians returning south from Canada after eluding U.S. Cavalry, crossed what is now Granite County. While passing through they attacked a small mining camp located on a tributary of Rock Creek at ...

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Captain Jed. Chapman

Here fell

Jed. Chapman

Capt. Co. H

27th Conn. Vols.

Marker is on DeTrobriand Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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8th New Jersey Volunteers

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):8th New Jersey

Volunteers

Col. John Ramsay

3d Brig. [Burling's]

2d Div. 3d Corps

Erected by the State

of New Jersey 1888

(Left):Engaged here July 2,

1863. Being detached

from the Brigade.

Supported batteries on

Cemetery Ridge July 3.

Took into action 170.

Killed 7. Wounded

7 Officers, 31 Men.

Missing 2. ...

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John R. Kissinger

1877 - 1946

John R. Kissinger, who lived in Huntington in his latter years, became the first volunteer to subject himself to the bite of an infected mosquito (1900) in an experiment to identify the cause of "Yellow Jack" (Yellow Fever). ...

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Jackson's Garden

This backyard kitchen garden provided the household with a variety of flowers, fruit and vegetables. Major Jackson reported in an 1860 letter that the garden included, “lima beans, snap beans, carrots, parsnips, salsify, onions, cabbage, turnips, beets, potatoes, and some ...

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The Stonewall Jackson House

This typical Federal-style town house, with a later stone addition, was the home of Thomas Jonathan Jackson and his wife, Mary Anna. They lived here with five of their six slaves before the Civil War.

After her husband’s death in 1863, ...

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D.R. Jones' Division, Longstreet's Command

C.S.A.

D.R. Jones' Division, Longstreet's Command.

Brig. Gen. David R. Jones, Commanding.

September 15-16, 1862.

This division, composed of the brigades of Toombs, Kempter, Drayton, [J]en[k]ins, Garnett, and George T. Anderson, withdrew from its position on the South Mountain during the night of Sept. ...

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Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson 1824-1863

Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson is best known for his leadership of Confederate troops during the American Civil War, and especially for his celebrated Valley Campaign of 1862.

Thomas Jackson was a country boy from (West) Virginia who became a graduate of ...

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D.R. Jones' Division, Longstreet's Command

C.S.A.

D.R. Jones' Division, Longstreet's Command,

Brig. Gen. David R. Jones, Commanding.

September 17, 1862.

The division formed at daylight on the plateau commanding the approaches to the Burnside Bridge.

At about noon the enemy made several attempts to carry the bridge, but was repulsed. ...

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