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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Z3_sherman-at-zion-church_Guyton-GA.html
On the night of Dec. 8, 1864, Hq. Military Division of the Mississippi (USA), Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, was established here at Zion Church. Hq. Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps), Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard, USA, was at Eden (3 mi. SW). Hq. Left Wing…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Z2_capital-guardian_Fort-Washington-MD.html
Building the Second FortOn September 8, 1814, only 12 days after the destruction of Fort Warburton, Pierre L'Enfant was commissioned by the Government to reestablish a fortification here. Work began that October but increasing friction between L'E…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Z1_houston-baptist_Savannah-GA.html
Houston Baptist Church and its adjoining cemetery wereorganized in 1886 under the leadership of Reverend Ulysses L. Houston, minister of First Bryan Baptist Church in Savannah. A significant religious and political leader in the African-American c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Z0_goshen-church_Rincon-GA.html
Goshen Church was built about 1751. It was served by the early pastors of the Salzburgers, and later for a short time by the Moravian missionaries. The church remained a part of the Ebenezer Charge until after the Revolutionary War.
In 1820, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YZ_christ-reformed-church_Middletown-MD.html
Eight thousand Confederates under Gen. Lafayette McLaws marched by this church on September 10-11, 1862, heading south to Harper's Ferry. Since no Federals were in the area, McLaws expected no encounters with the enemy. Unknown to him, however, Un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YY_shermans-left-wing_Sardis-GA.html
On Dec. 4, 1864, Kilpatrick`s cavalry division (USA) of Gen. Sherman`s army, supported by two brigades of Baird`s infantry division of the 14th Corps, drove units of Wheeler`s cavalry corps (CSA) out of Waynesboro and across Brier Creek in order t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YX_200-years-later_River-Vale-NJ.html
200 years later we rememberSeptember 28, 1978Presented byBaylor's Dragoons Memorial Committee
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YW_battery-decatur-and-disappearing-guns_Fort-Washington-MD.html
American coastal defenses were modernized from the 1890s to 1910 with the development of the Endicott System. Emphasis in military tactics shifted the masonry fortifications to more effective weapons based on rifled steel guns, improved breech-loa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YV_hagoods-brigade_Petersburg-VA.html
Here a brigade composed of the 7th battalion, the 11th, 21st, 25th and 27th regiments South Carolina Volunteers, commanded by Brig. Gen. Johnson Hagood, charged Warren's Federal Army Corps, on the 21st day of August 1864, taking into the fight 749…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YU_first-baptist-church_Georgetown-SC.html
This congregation, founded in 1794 and long known as Antipedo Baptist Church, was the first separate Baptist congregation in Georgetown. Baptists had worshipped in the area as early as 1710, sharing the Black Mingo Meeting House with Presbyterians…