Gordon Flank Attack Trail

The Battle of the Wilderness

In this field and its surrounding woods fell nearly one-third of the men killed or wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness.

The two-mile Gordon Flank Attack Trail tracks the Battle of the Wilderness in all its ...

Boyhood Home of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston

Born in Prince Edward Co. on 3 Feb. 1807, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, the son of Judge Peter Johnston, moved a mile north of here with his family in 1811. He attended Abingdon Male Academy and graduated from the U.S. Military ...

Reformed Dutch Church of Tappan

Organized 1694

Used as a military hospital and prison during the Revolution. The trials of Major John Andre as a spy, and of Joshua Heit Smith for treason, were held here in 1780.

Marker is at the intersection of Kings Highway and ...

Old Town Plantation

The area now called Old Town Plantation is shown on maps dating to the early 18th century. It was called Ogeechee Old Town because of the ancient Creek Indian town that Carolina traders visited before Georgia was founded in 1733.

All Saints Episcopal Church / Gordon W. Lloyd

All Saints Episcopal Church

An Episcopal parish was organized in Saugatauk on All Saints Day, November 1, 1868. Services were held at various locations until 1873. In 1871 the parish purchased property. Detroit architect Gordon W. Lloyd designed the ...

Crawfordville Baptist Church

This, the first Protestant Church in the Taliaferro area and originally called Bethel, was established in 1802 by Rev. Jesse Mercer and Rev. James Matthews on land given by William Janes, one of Georgia's largest planters. The first pastor was ...

First Brigade

First Division - Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps First Division

First Division

Col. William S. Tilton

18th. 22d. Massachusetts 1st. Michigan

118th. Pennsylvania Infantry

July 2 In position in column with the Division and Corps on the Baltimore Pike near Rock Creek until after ...

22nd Massachusetts Infantry

1st Brigade, 1st Division

(Around Upper Facings):22nd Mass. Infty.

1st Brigade

1st Division

5th Corps

(Left):First Colonel

Henry Wilson

succeeded by

Jesse A. Cove

Killed June 27, 1862.

(Back):The

22nd Mass. Infty.

stood here

July 2, 1863

Marker is on Sickles Avenue, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Canadian Escarpment

Prominent landform of

north-eastern New

Mexico that extends for

almost 100 miles

between Las Vegas and

Clayton. From this

point, the grass-lands

of the High Plains

reach northwestward to

the foot of the

Southern Rocky

Mountains which rise to

elevations ...

Osterhaus' Division

Blair's Corps

Osterhaus' Division, Blair's Corps

Brig. Gen. Peter J. Osterhaus.

Nov. 24, 1863

1st Brigade, Brig. Gen. Charles R. Woods.

2nd Brigade, Col. James A. Williamson.

Early on the 24th the division took position on the left of Hooker's lines on and behind the hills ...