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

C.S.A.

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

Brig. Gen. D.R. Jones, Commanding.

Organization.

Brig. Gen. Robert Toombs' Brigade,

Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Drayton's Brigade,

Brig. Gen. R. B. Garnett's Brigade,

Brig. Gen. James L. Kemper's Brigade,

Col. Joseph Walker's Brigade,

Col. George T. Anderson's Brigade.

September 15-16, 1862.

Jones' Division reached Sharpsburg ...

John Harris/Simon Cameron Mansion

Here is situated the stone residence of John Harris, Jr. (1727-1791), the founder of Harrisburg, which he erected at the end of the French and Indian War in 1766. In 1785, the Borough of Harrisburg was laid out in the ...

Jefferson Davis's Flight South, April 26-27, 1865

Last Confederate Cabinet Meeting, April 27, 1865

(Front):

Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet, making their way south from Richmond, Va. with a cavalry escort, stopped at Fort Mill on April 26, 1865. Davis spent the night at Springfield, the home ...

First Dam Across The St. Joseph River / Power Race

First Dam Across The St. Joseph River

The original dam, providing power for which Mishawaka was noted, was completed in 1837. It was 577 feet long, 24 feet thick and cost $38,000.00.

Power Race

Along this race, providing water power, and along its ...

James Robinson House

To the south stood the farmhouse of James Robinson, a former slave freed by Landon Carter. There, during the First Battle of Manassas on 21 July 1961, Col. Wade Hampton’s Legion covered the Confederates falling back to Henry Hill, where ...

The Army of the James Monument

(north face)

Sacred

to the

Lamented Dead

of

The Army

of the James.

(south face)

Erected

by the direction of

Maj. Genl. B.F. Butler.

George Suckley.

Surg. U.S. Vol.

Colonel and Medical Director

H.B. Fowler.

Surg. 12. N.H. Vol.

Surgeon in charge of

Point of Rocks hospital.

Geo. Jones.

Hospital Chaplain

1865.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of North ...

Jesse Lazear, M.D.

1866-1900

Johns Hopkins researcher in Cuba. To find the cause of yellow fever he courageously exposed himself to virus-infected mosquitoes and died of the disease, thereby proving the route of transmission.

Marker is on West Lanvale Street, on the right ...

Joseph A. Altsheler

Author, newspaperman. Wrote more than 40 books based on American history and designed especially for young people. A native of Three Springs, educated at Glasgow, Ky., and Vanderbilt Univ. On staff of the Louisville Courier-Journal, 1885-92; joined New York World, ...

Home of John Garwood / Garwoods Mill Site

Logan County, On Top of Ohio

[South Side of Marker]: Home of John Garwood

In 1805 the John Garwood family of thirteen children located their home near this spot. Their activities here were responsible for the town of East Liberty. The village ...

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. ...