Two Armies Collide

Imagine 7,000 Confederate troops crowded in close order along Ford Road, the lane you see on the right edge of this field. As they trudged east toward Elkhorn Tavern, a small Union force of Iowa cavalrymen - only 600 men ...

Breckinridge's Attack

Late Afternoon, January 2, 1863

1. Union soldiers were positioned on the east side of Stones River, threatening the Confederate right wing.

2. General John C. Breckinridge's powerful attack forced Colonel John Beatty's Union division back across the river at McFadden's Ford. ...

Broadway Methodist

Paducah's oldest institution. Founded 1832. First edifice erected 1842 on northwest corner Broadway at 4th. Relocated 1875 on southwest corner Broadway at 7th. Moved to present site 1896. Destroyed by fire 1929; rebuilt 1930. Judge Wm. Sutton Bishop, the Old ...

Battle of Corydon

On July 9, 1863, along this wooded ridge - - - from the “Laconta” Road extending across the “Mauckport” Pike to the old “New Amsterdam” Road - - - occurred the only Civil War battle in Indiana. It was between ...

Harrison County (Indiana) Fair

Oldest continuous County Fair existing in Indiana. First fair held Sept. 11 - 14, 1860. Citizens met jan. 1860, organized Harrison County Agricultural Society, adopted constitution which with amendments governs yet today. Ground purchased Mar. 1860 from Benj. Aydelott, half ...

Lindenwald and the Old Post Road

Martin Van Buren Nat’l Hist Site

You are standing along one of the few remaining unpaved stretches of the Old Post Road. In 1839 when Martin Van Buren bought this property, the Old Post Road was the main route on ...

Fayette County World War Memorial

Dedicated with ceremonies

May 27th 1919.

To the brave boys of Fayette County

who served in the World War

Erected to

those from Fayette County

who served their country

in the World War

Dedicated Nov. 11, 1927

[Includes an Honor Roll of County Dead]

Fayette's Sons

They Gave Their All

George W. ...

Battery A, Maryland Light Artillery

(Front):Maryland's Tribute

to her loyal sons

Rigby's Maryland Battery A

(Right):Losses in action

Killed 5 - Wounded 18 - Missing 3.

Total 26.

Strength at Gettysburg

Officers 4 - Enlisted men 102.

(Left):Organized at Baltimore, Md.

October 1861

Consolidated with Battery B,

Maryland Light Artillery

March 11, 1865.

(Back):Principal Engagements

Seven Days & Battles ...

Dare County's Tribute to Veterans

[Center Panel]:

“By your courage in tribulation, by your cheerfulness before the dirty devices of this world, you have won the love of those who have watched you.”

- Guy Chapman

Dedicated: November 11, 1991.

[Left Panel]:

To all who’ve stood tall for freedom

Those of ...

Robert Kirkwood, Jr.

Born in 1756, Robert Kirkwood, Jr. spent his youth on the family farm several miles north of Newark. Kirkwood eventually enrolled at the Newark Academy, later to become the University of Delaware. When the American Revolution began, Kirkwood was commissioned ...