Maj. Thomas D. Howie

The Major of St. Lô

[Front]:

Birthplace of Thomas Dry Howie (1908–1944), World War II hero famous as “The Major of St. Lô,” Abbeville High School, Class of 1925. The Citadel, Class of 1929, where he was an all-state football player and ...

Doctor Eduard Dorsch

1822 - 1887

Although Dr. Dorsch, born in Bavaria, was a competent physician with degrees from Munich & Vienna, he was exiled when the 1848 Germain Revolution failed. In Monroe his love of freedom led him to make this home a ...

5th Md. Vet. Vol. Infy.

Erected

by the survivors of

Company A & I

to the memory of our

fallen comrads

who fell on this spot

September 17, 1862.

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This stone

marks the extreme advance

of Weber's Brigade

French's Div. 2nd Army Corps

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Can their glory ever fade!

Marker can be reached from Richardson Avenue, on the ...

Michel's Drug Store

Ernst Gustav Michel (1865-1930), a native of Germany, and his wife, Lillie Agnes, opened a drugstore at this site in 1891. After fire destroyed the first store in 1905, Michel built a 3-story edifice here. The first floor housed the ...

The Grave of Duncan Campbell & Jane McCrea

The Grave of

Duncan Campbell

& Jane McCrea

are just within and

to the left

of this gateway.

Marker is on Broadway (U.S. 4), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Fight for the Cedars

December 31, 1862

1. The Union line was smashed by the Confederate onrush. Reserve troops rushed here to stem the tide.

2. Those Union soldiers, confused by the cedar thickets, fog and smoke, also fled.

3. Union infantry and artillery along the Nashville ...

Sixteen Soldiers

This monument is erected to commemorate the sacrifice of the lives of Sixteen Soldiers who were massacred July, 1758, by a band of hostile Indians in the park which was then only a path in the wilderness.

The sixteen soldiers, with ...

Golden Ball Tavern

Here stood a dwelling house, constructed about 1764 by prosperous tobacco merchant, Richard Hanson, who, as a fervent Loyalist, fled Virginia in 1776. During the latter part of the Revolution, the structure became known as the Golden Ball Tavern. According ...

Abandoned Artillery

These two Wiard rifled cannon represent two of the four guns lost by Lt. Alexander Marshall of Battery G 1st Ohio Light Artillery (originally two 12 pdr. howitzers, two 12 pdr Wiard rifles, and two six pdr. Wiard rifles.) These ...

Sheridan's Stand

10 A.M. - Noon

Here, General Phil Sheridan's Union division made a stand against the onrushing Confederates. His men, together with those of General George Thomas' divisions, hurled back repeated attacks before being forced to withdraw. The delaying action gave the ...