The First and Second Filipino Infantry Regiments U.S. Army

The first Filipino Infantry Regiment was activated July 13, 1942 at the Salinas California Rodeo Grounds. The Second Filipino Infantry Regiment was activated November 22, 1942 at Fort Ord. Personnel were Filipinos living in the United States then and American ...

Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association

This land and other portions of this battleground, fought over by brave men of a nation divided, is now part of Gettysburg National Military Park, through the agency of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association and the collective generosity of patriotic ...

2nd Rhode Island Infantry

July 21, 1861

11:00 a.m.

2nd Brigade (Burnside)

Army of Northeastern Virginia, USA

2nd Rhode Island Infantry

Col. John S. Slocum

"The 2nd was hotly engaged and made so gallant a fight as to push the enemy off the plateau and partly down the hillside. In ...

Fort Sedgwick, Colorado Territory

"We have no business to put men out here unless we give them food and shelter, and all things but sand and water must be hauled from 1 to 400 miles."

Lt. Gen. William T. Sherman, Fort Sedgwick, August 1866Camp Rankin ...

Aqueduct, 1842

Aqueduct, 1842

Second aqueduct erected on

site to carry Erie Canal

across Mohawk River.

Nearby are Locks 21 & 22

and a former canal store.

Marker is on Balltown Road (New York Route 146), on the right when traveling ...

If at First You Don't Succeed

Cheyenne, Arapaho and Sioux warriors burned the first Julesburg in early 1865. The second Julesburg was formed here, just outside the Fort Sedgwick Military Reservation. At its peak, the community included a store, blacksmith shop, billiards saloon, stage station and ...

2nd New Hampshire Infantry

July 21, 1861

11:00 a.m.

2nd Brigade (Burnside), Second Division (Hunter)

Army of Northeastern Virginia, USA

2nd New Hampshire Infantry

Col. Gilman Marston

"With the 71st New York State Militia on its left, the 2nd New Hampshire rushed to the front, and opened its store of ...

Richard Chute Square

The University of Minnesota's first building, a preparatory school, was located on this site from 1851 until the University moved to its present location in 1855.

?When the city of Minneapolis acquired the land for a park in 1903, it was ...

New Hoppert Building

Owned by Hoppert Family since 1870's. (Descendant Cathryn Gates has title in 2002)

1862 - Small wooden building: "John Cannon, Attorney and Counselor-at-Law."

1870 - Christopher Hoppert buys this parcel and building, plus several to the east and north; opens C.H. Hoppert: ...

Major Thomas Dry Howie

Commander, 2nd Battalion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division U.S. Army

Abbeville honors herself in

honoring her son

The Major of St. Lo.

He fell during the liberation of Normandy and was taken by his troops into St. Lo. His flag-draped body was enshrined in the ...