17th Indiana Infantry

Hascall's Brigade - Wood's Division

(Front):17th Regiment

Infantry

commanded by

Col. John T. Wilder,

15th Brigade - Gen. Hascall -

6th Division - Gen. Wood -

Army of the Ohio.

Indiana

(Back):17th Infantry,

commanded by

Col. John T. Wilder.

this regiment arrived on the battlefield at 12 o'clock on the night of ...

Southbury World War I Memorial

In honor of those from Southbury who served in the World War 1917-1919

Joseph Alseph • Jesse M. Bailey •

Thomas Bale • William C. Ballard •

Edward Bayon •

Ernest H. Beardsley • Harold A. Benedict •

Joseph Birtkus • ...

Outgunned

Battle of Malvern Hill

General Robert E. Lee hoped that a crossfire of Confederate artillery directed against the crest of Malvern Hill might silence the powerful array of Union guns and clear the way for an infantry charge. Generals Longstreet and ...

Blunt Reservation and Fields

This is the western boundary of a reservation set aside the by the treaty of Fort Moultrie and given to John Blunt (Blount) one of the six principal chiefs of the Florida Indians. The Apalachicola River was the eastern boundary. ...

"His recovery . . . is yet considered doubtful"

Among the hundreds of soldiers, nurses, and volunteers who worked at Camp Letterman was Private Justus Silliman of the 17th Connecticut Volunteers, a resident of New Canaan. Slightly wounded in the fighting on July 1st, he remained behind to care ...

Candler County War Memorial

Dedicated to Those

Brave Men of Candler County Who

Paid the Supreme Sacrifice in

Defense of Their Country

Donated by the Citizens

of

Candler County

Memorial Day 1987

( Left Panel)

Honor Roll

World War II

Thomas Bragg • William A. Brinson • ...

"The sight of blood never again affected me"

With the departure of the two armies following the battle, the burden of caring for the wounded fell largely on the shoulders of the local civilians. Although much attention has been paid to the United States Sanitary Commission and the ...

Adams County

Formed January 22, 1800 out of York County. The name honors President John Adams. Important center of fruit growing industry. County seat of Gettysburg, incorporated 1806, was site in 1863 of key Civil War battle and President Abraham Lincoln's great ...

The Gorgas-Manly Historic District

includes

The Gorgas House (1829)

First structure built on the original campus

The Round House (1860)

Used by cadets on guard duty, and another of the four buildings to survive the fires set by Federal troops in 1865.

Woods Hall (1868)

First building constructed after the ...

"...sights and sounds...too horrible to describe..."

Four years after Gettysburg became the county seat in 1800, the first Adams County Courthouse was placed in Lincoln Square (one block to your right). In 1859 this larger building was erected to serve the growing populace.

The arrival of the ...