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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMYZ_u-s-s-maine-memorial_Chambersburg-PA.html
In MemoriamU.S.S. MaineDestroyed in Havana HarborFebruary 15th 1898 This tablet is cast from metal recovered from the U.S.S. Maine In memoriam to Walter S. Sellers, pharmacist, who lost his life in the sinking of the Battleship Maine, Feb. 1…
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When General Robert E. Lee's invading army overran the Union garrison at Winchester, Virginia, on June 15, 1863, elements of the 1st New York "Lincoln" Cavalry covered the retreat. Company C, under Captain William Boyd, continued to harass the Con…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRM_the-battle-of-monterey-pass_Waynesboro-PA.html
As Confederate Captain George Emack's men held the approach of Monterey Pass, Union General George Custer, supported by artillery began his attack toward the intersection where the wagon train was retreating. Captain Emack, fearing that he could n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRL_10-000-soldiers-fight-at-monterey-pass_Waynesboro-PA.html
During a fierce thunderstorm on the evening of July 4, 1863, a nine-mile-long wagon train of supplies, livestock and wounded soldiers made its way from Fairfield through Monterey Pass. This was the advance of the Confederate retreat column from Ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRB_the-battle-of-monterey-pass-kirkpatrick_Blue-Ridge-Summit-PA.html
As a squadron of the 18th Peesylvania Cavalry went into the woods, portions of the 1st and 5th Michigan Cavalry began their advance. The 5th Michigan Cavalry was sent toward the right and a portion of the 1st Michigan was ordered to dismount an co…
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At this location, Confederate Captain William Tanner deployed one Napoleon cannon to guard the eastern summit of South Mountain. At 9:00 p.m. the 5th Michigan Cavalry, leading the advance of Union General Judson Kilpatrick's Cavalry Division, w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC8N_fort-chambers_Chambersburg-PA.html
Southwest 150 FeetErected 1755-56 byColonel Benjamin ChambersFounder of ChambersburgA two story stone structure surrounded By a moatA stockade manned by two swivel gunsEnclosed the fort, flour mill, sawmill,And dwelling.1984Kittochtinny Historical…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC89_founding-family-memorial-statue_Chambersburg-PA.html
On March 30, 1734, Benjamin Chambers, a Scots-Irish immigrant and millwright was granted a Blunston License by the Penn family to develop a 400-acre plantation and gristmill for the first Franklin County settlement, named the Falling Spring Settle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC88_the-greatest-sacrifice-prelude-to-gettysburg_Chambersburg-PA.html
The price of war is devastation. Franklin County paid the price when its county seat, Chambersburg, was burned to the ground in 1864. Invaded in 1862, 1863, and 1864 by Confederate forces, Franklin County has the distinction of suffering more Sout…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC85_frederick-douglass-and-john-brown_Chambersburg-PA.html
The two abolitionists met at a stone quarry here, Aug. 19-21, 1859, and discussed Browns plans to raid the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. He urged Douglass to join an armed demonstration against slavery. Douglass refused, warning the raid would…
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