Calvert's Arkansas Battery

Maj. T. R. Hotchkiss' Artillery Battalion.

Calvert's Arkansas Battery

Two 6 pdrs., Two 12-pdr. Howitzers.

Maj. T. R. Hotchkiss' Artillery Battalion.

Cleburne's Division.

1st Lieut. Thomas J. Key Commanding.

1st Lieuts. R. Fitzpatrick and W. M. Hopwood.

2d Lieut. J. G. Marshall.

Nov. 25th, 1863. Noon

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Matthies' Brigade

John E. Smith's Division.

Matthies' Brigade

John E. Smith's Division - Smith's Corps.

Brig. Gen. Charles L. Matthies.

Col. Benjamin D. Dean.

Col. Jabez Banbury.

Nov. 25, 1863.

93d Illinois - Col. Holden Putnam (Killed).

93d Illinois - Lieut. Col. N.C. Buswell.

5th Iowa - Col. Jabez Banbury.

5th Iowa ...

Cheat Summit Fort

1861-1862

Cheat Summit Fort, also called “Fort Milroy,” was constructed by Federal troops in the summer of 1861. The fort was positioned to control the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike. Initial work was conducted by six companies of the 14th Indiana Infantry Regiment under ...

James G. Megeath

1824 - 1906

Born in Virginia in 1824, James Megeath was the eldest of 10 children. By age 20, he had become a cattle and sheep trader. Struck by gold fever, he went to Calaveras County, California, in 1851, operating a ...

City of Watervliet

The land now occupied by the City of Watervliet is part of a tract purchased by the first Patroon, Kiliaen van Rensselaer in 1630 from the Mohican or River Indians. The tract was within a large area on the west ...

Henderson’s Station

About 1 mi. N., now the village of Afton, Anthony Moore settled on Sinking Creek in 1778; his daughter was the first white child born hereabouts. Daniel Kennedy came in 1779, fought at King’s Mountain and was Greene County’s first ...

Fashion Plantation

Home of General Richard Taylor, son of Zachary Taylor, Louisiana statesman and member of the 1861 Secession Convention. Commanded Louisiana District, 1862-64; defeated Banks at Battle of Mansfield, 1864. Federals plundered home in 1862.

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Skirmish of Boutte Station

Union train with sixty men ambushed by Confederate force of Louisiana militia and volunteers on September 4, 1862. Train escaped to New Orleans. Fourteen Union soldiers killed and twenty-two wounded in the skirmish.

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Battle of des Allemands

Le district des Allemands, settled by Germans about 1720, the scene of numerous skirmishes between Confederate guerillas and Union forces, 1862-63. Most famous skirmish resulted in capture of an entire detachment of Union soldiers on September 4, 1862.

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Einersheimer Gate

Einersheimer Tor

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1422 erste Erwähnung

1525 Abwehr eines Bauernhaufens

1551 Ausbau zu einer massiven Wehranlage mit Verbindung des äusseren und inneren Tores durch den Steinmetz Caspar Rotenfelser. Steinkreuz im Innern zur Erinnerung an einen von den Schweden im 30-jährigen Krieg ...