God has granted us a Happy New Year!

God has granted us a Happy New Year!

Braxton Bragg, general commanding the Army of the Tennessee, in a telegram to Confederate President Jefferson Davis

On New Year's Eve the fighting had raged from dawn to dusk. Here on the edges of ...

Presidential Recognition

150th Anniversary of the battle

This is a place of inspiring memories.

Here less than a thousand men, inspired by the urge of freedom, defeated a superior force....This small band of patriots turned back a dangerous invasion well-designed to separate and dismember ...

Second Pennsylvania Veteran Heavy Artillery

The Advance Position 2nd Pa. Vet. Heavy Art. July 30, 1864.

Went into action July 30, 1864, 780 men - answered roll call. After battle 286 men; Lost killed and wounded 494 men, including 8 officers.

Marker can be reached from Siege ...

Confederate Countermine

Suspecting a Union mine, the Confederates dug two listening galleries here. They narrowly missed striking the Union tunnel, which was deeper. The depressions you see were caused by the cave-in of these galleries.

Marker can be reached from Siege Road 0.4 ...

The New Franklin Viaduct

The Need

When the Missouri, Kansas and Texas (MKT) Railroad established a division in Franklin, Mo., a switching yard was located south of New Franklin. This switching yard contained seven sets of tracks plus the through line. Missouri Highway 5 entered ...

Site of Hayden's Ferry

1200 Feet Northeast of This Marker

Established in 1871, when the Salt River was a flowing stream and a barrier to travel the ferry was held on course by a wire cable taut across the river. It was an important link ...

Mount Independence

Bastion of the Revolution

Fortification was begun in June of 1776, and the name Mount Independence was bestowed following the Declaration of Independence. Lieut. Col. Jeduthan Baldwin was the chief construction engineer. Here the exhausted American Army, Northern Department, was stationed ...

President Hoover

On this Site

President Hoover

Addressed an audience of 75,000

at the Celebration of the

Sesque Centennial

of the Battle of Kings Mountain

Oct. 7, 1930

Marker can be reached from Kings Mountain Park Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Wasted Valor

On the plain below you, the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery enacted one of the tragic dramas of the Civil War.

“The field became a burning, seething, crashing, hissing hell, in which human courage, flesh and bone were struggling with an impossibility.…”

- ...

Prince George Court House Road

This old road was used by both Confederate and Union Armies in the fighting around Petersburg.

Marker can be reached from Siege Road 1.6 miles south of East Washington Street (Virginia Route 36).

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