Audley

The house to the north is the home of Nellie Parke Custis, George Washington’s ward, who married his nephew, Major Lawrence Lewis. After her husband’s death in 1839, Nellie Custis Lewis settled here, and here she died in 1852.

Marker is ...

Col. Ruby G. Bradley

U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 30 Years

In honor of

Col. Ruby G. Bradley

U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 30 years.

W.W. II, 1941–1945. Prisoner of war 37 months in the Asiatic Pacific Campaign in the Philippine Islands.

Korean War, 1950–1953.Chief Nurse of the emergency hospitals in ...

Caddie Woodlawn

On this site during the Civil War Caroline Augusta Woodhouse, known throughout the world as "Caddie Woodlawn," experienced the excitement of growing up in pioneer Wisconsin. Her tomboy adventures with her two red-headed brothers, and her fearless trust in the ...

Capt. Henry J. Biddle

2nd Lieut. Jonathan Williams Biddle

Capt. Henry J. Biddle

Assistant Adjutant General

Pennsylvania Reserves

Born   May 16, 1817

Mortally wounded in the

Battle of New Market Cross Roads

June 30,

Died in Richmond, Va.

July 20, 1862

[ Lt. ...

Middleburg

Screening Lee’s Army

During the Gettysburg Campaign in June 1863, Middleburg was the scene of major cavalry operations. On June 17, 1863, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s small force, charged with screening Gen. Robert E. Lee’s infantry moving north and west of the ...

Woodlawn Cemetery

4611 Benning Road, SE

Woodlawn Cemetery, established in 1895, serves the final resting place for Sen. Blanche K. Bruce, Mary P. Burrill, Will Marion Cook, John W. Cromwell, John R. Francis, Rep. John Mercer Langston, Jesse Lawson, Mary Meriwether, and Daniel ...

Captain C. V. Gridley

Grave of Captain Gridley, commander of Dewey's flagship Olympia in the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898, is located in this cemetery. Dewey's order, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," opened the battle.

Marker is on East Lake Road.

Courtesy ...

Battle of Middleburg

Here, on 19 June 1863, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry fought Brig. Gen. David M. Gregg’s Union cavalry division. Screening the march of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia through the Shenandoah Valley to invade Pennsylvania, Stuart formed ...

Woodland Cemetery

[side A]

Howard Daniels, who lived from 1815-1863, was a noted architect and landscape gardener. Over the course of his life, he designed six Ohio and New York cemeteries, including Woodland that began in 1852 when he laid out 20 ...

Ackenhausen Saddlery Company Building

In Leavenworth's early days this building was the home of the Charles Ackenhausen Saddlery Company. Mr. Ackenhausen was a prominent and progressive citizen and a great benefit to Leavenworth after immigrating from Hanover, Germany. In 1858 he worked as a ...