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Right Wing - Army of Tennessee

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Right Wing - Army of Tennessee General Leonidas Polk. September 20, 1863. Forrest's Cavalry Corps - Brigadier General Nathan B. Forrest. Breckinridge's Division - Major General John C. Breckinridge. Walker's Reserve Corps - . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hill's Corps

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Hill's Corps Lieutenant General Daniel H. Hill September 20th, 1863, 9 a.m. Cleburne's Division - Major General Patrick R. Cleburne. Breckinridge's Division - Major General John C. Breckinridge. Breckinridge's Division . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Polk's Corps

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Polk's Corps Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk September 20, 1863. Cheatham's Division - Major General Benjamin F. Cheatham. Hindman's Division - Major General Thomas C. Hindman. The divisions of this Corps were separated . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hill's Headquarters Shell Monument

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Headquarters Hill's Corps Lieutenant General Daniel H. Hill September 20, 1863. Afternoon

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Douglas' Texas Battery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
C.S.A. Douglas Texas Battery 4 guns Deshler's Brigade Cleburne's Division September 20, 1863. 5 p.m. Captain James P. Douglas.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Douglas' Texas Battery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Douglas' Texas Battery. 2 6 pounders, 2 12 pound howitzers. Deshler's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hill's Corps. September 20, 1863. Captain James P. Douglas, Commanding. 1st Lieutenant John H. Brigham. 1st Lieutenant . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Calvert's Arkansas Battery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Calvert's Arkansas Battery. 2 6 Pounders, 2 12 Pounder Howitzers. Polk's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hill's Corps. September 20, 1863. 1st Lieutenant Thomas Key, Commanding. 2d Lieutenant Willis M. Hopwood. 2d Lieutenant . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Four Immortal Chaplains

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East Meadow, New York.
George L. Fox, Methodist Minister • Alexander D. Goode, Jewish Rabbi • Clark V. Poling, Dutch Reformed Minister • John P. Washington, Catholic Priest During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943 the USAT Dorchester was . . .

(Churches, Etc. • War, World II • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Clash Of Cultures

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Soda Springs, Idaho.
Floods of emigrants, gold seekers, and Mormon settlers entering the homeland of the Shoshone and Bannock people from the mid-1840s to early 1860s gave rise to conflict and often violent encounters. Despite Mormon effort to . . .

(Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

America Legion Auxiliary

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East Meadow, New York.
To honor our sisters in the American Legion Auxiliary Proudly serving to improve the lives of our U.S. veterans, active military and their brave families, both at home and abroad American Legion Auxiliary Department of New . . .

(Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First In Soda Springs

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Soda Springs, Idaho.
In many respects, emigrants Niels Anderson and Mary Christoffersen seem like typical young Idaho pioneers of the 1860s. Niels, 28 years old, and Mary, barely 16, were wed by a Justice of the Peace at an open-air ceremony at . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The "Comfort Women"

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East Meadow, New York.
In remembrance of the more than 200,000 women and girls who were abducted for the use of sexual slavery by the armed forces of the Government of Imperial Japan, 1930's-1945. Known to the world as "comfort women", they . . .

(War, World II • Wars, Non-US • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bear River Lava

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near Soda Springs, Idaho.
Until about 28,000 years ago, Bear River used to flow northwest from here through Portneuf Canyon into Snake River. Then these lava eruption blocked that route, diverting Bear River south into what now is Salt Lake. At that . . .

(Natural Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Bidwell

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near Soda Springs, Idaho.
In 1840, John Bidwell began to assemble emigrants from Missouri to open a road to California; and a year later, he set out with a party of 69 Pacific Coast pioneers. When they reached here, August 12, 1841, half of this . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The First Public School in Freeport

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Freeport, New York.
Upon this site stood the first public school in Freeport This building was erected about 1820 and served as the first public school until 1852 Mr. John Rankin had the honor of being the first teacher to teach in this . . .

(Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Suffolk County

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Amityville, New York.
Organized Nov. 1, 1683 One of the original counties of the Province of New York. Originally East Riding of Yorkshire

(Political Subdivisions) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Henry Harrison

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near Soda Springs, Idaho.
Oregon Trail Memorial Erected 1931 Restored 1978 Caribou County 4H Builders Club In honor of William Henry Harrison of Massachusetts who lost his life on the Oregon Trail about 1850. Erected by his niece Mrs. Alura F. . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Trailways Attack

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Anniston, Alabama.
1st Panel Two busloads of Freedom Riders arrived in Alabama on Sunday, May 14, 1961, bound for New Orleans. It was an organized effort by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to challenge the South's continued defiance of . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Babylon Railroad Co. Trolley Route

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Copiague, New York.
From 1910 to 1920, an electrified trolley line known as the Babylon Railroad extended from Amityville to Babylon, passing through Copiague along Oak Street to Great Neck Road and then east toward Lindenhurst.

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Early Schools

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Islip, New York.
1924 Main Street School K-12. Motto: "Enter to learn, go forth to serve." Expanded in '28, '48 & '53 Islip Town purchased 1977

(Education) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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