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Anderson's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Anderson's Brigade. Hindman's Division -- Polk's Corps. Brigadier General Patton Anderson. September 20, 1863, 2 p.m., 3d Position. 7th Mississippi - Colonel W. H. Bishop. 9th Mississippi - Major T.H. Lynam. 10th Mississippi . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Long Eddy, New York

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Long Eddy, New York.
Formerly Douglass City 1867 - 1878 Sullivan County's Only City "To those who conceived it and all who came after." 1st. settler, Joseph Geer, 1800

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

Trigg's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Trigg's Brigade. Preston's Division, - Buckner's Corps. Colonel Robert C. Trigg. September 20, 1863, 7 P.M. Last Position 1st Florida Cavalry, (Dismounted) - Colonel G. T. Maxwell. 6th Florida, - Colonel J. J. Finley. 7th . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bert Zimmerly

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near Lewiston, Idaho.
Noted pilot and founder of Idaho's first airline. His skillful flying, zest for adventure, pioneer spirit and mercy missions left an aviation legend. He was a man of remarkable energy, resolution and result -- yet, withal a . . .

(Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Title Building

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Moscow, Idaho.
Built in 1890, this is the original site of the Moscow National Bank which closed in 1896 and then successive banking ventures until 1936.

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

Trigg's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Trigg's Brigade. Preston's Division, - Buckner's Corps. Colonel Robert C. Trigg. September 20, 1863, 7 P.M. Last Position 1st Florida Cavalry, Dismounted, - Colonel G. T. Maxwell. 6th Florida, - Colonel J. J. Finley. 7th . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Trigg's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Trigg's Brigade. Preston's Division, - Buckner's Corps. Colonel Robert C. Trigg. September 20, 1863, 5 P.M. 1st Florida Cavalry, Dismounted, - Colonel G. T. Maxwell. 6th Florida, - Colonel J. J. Finley. 7th Florida, - . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

It These Walls Could Talk

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near DeSmet, Idaho.
If these walls could talk, many interesting stories would be told. Using materials from the surrounding area, James (Jerry) G. Marsh constructed this log building in 1933 & 1934, and it was the first tavern in Benewah County . . .

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

Anderson's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Anderson's Brigade. Hindman's Division -- Polk's Corps. Brigadier General Patton Anderson. September 20, 1863, 2 p.m., 3d Position. 7th Mississippi - Colonel W. H. Bishop. 9th Mississippi - Major T.H. Lynam. 10th Mississippi . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

“A Pretty Close Call”

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Bardstown, Kentucky.
General John Hunt Morgan, his second in command Col. Basil Duke, and other senior officers were adjourning a meeting at the Hamilton Hall House near Lebanon Junction when their command of 4,000 was surprised by an attack . . .

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

Fight at New Haven

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New Haven, Kentucky.
In the early morning hours of December 30, 1862, three companies of Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s 9th Kentucky Cavalry,, supported by a single 12-pounder mountain howitzer, demanded the surrender of the Federal garrison at New . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lebanon Junction

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Lebanon Junction, Kentucky.
The American Civil War was the first conflict to utilize railroads for the movement of troops and supplies. Consequently, protecting the railroads was an important aspect of military strategy on both sides. In Kentucky this . . .

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

Sherman Here

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Lebanon Junction, Kentucky.
USA Gen. William T. Sherman with 4,000 troops made headquarters here, late September, 1861. Object to secure Muldraugh's Hill against anticipated onrush of Confederates toward Louisville and to rally Kentuckians to Union . . .

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

Stockade at Belmont

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near Belmont, Kentucky.
By early December 1862 stockades had been constructed along the L&N at Sheperdsville, Bardstown Junction, Belmont and Cain Run, just north of Lebanon Junction. These wooden fortifications were designed to protect against an . . .

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

Josepha Rodriguez

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San Patricio, Texas.
Josepha Rodríguez, known as "Chipita," was hanged in 1863 for the murder of John Savage. She remained the last woman legally executed in the state of Texas until 1998. Little is known of Rodríguez' life, though it is . . .

(Hispanic Americans • Law Enforcement) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Action at Bardstown Junction

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Bardstown Junction, Kentucky.
John Hunt Morgan's command of some 2,500 men left Bardstown and moved west. The raid, to this point, simply had not gone as planned. Morgan had fought two pitched battles at Green River Bridge and at Lebanon and had been . . .

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

Fort DeWolf

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Sheperdsville, Kentucky.
The Union army began protecting the L&N Railroad from the beginning of the war. Once Nashville was taken the railroad became a vital supply line for Federal troops in Tennessee. It was equally important for the Confederacy . . .

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

L & N Bridge - Civil War

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Shepherdsville, Kentucky.
Destroyed 3 times by CSA. Partially razed on Sept. 7, 1862, by troops under Col. John Hutcheson. During the occupation of Sheperdsville, Sept. 28 Braxton Bragg's troops agin destroyed it, but new bridge was up by Oct. 11. . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Railroads & Streetcars • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Giver of Parks

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near DeSmet, Idaho.
... was a man who had many gifts to share. Perhaps the largest gift he ever bestowed was this state park; 4,400 acres of which he donated in 1955, in memory of his mother Mary Minerva McCroskey. Virgil was anything but a . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

DeSmet Mission

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DeSmet, Idaho.
When their annual Montana plains buffalo hunt proved futile in 1876, North Idaho's Coeur d' Alene Indians needed to move from Cataldo to a better farming area. So in 1877 their Jesuit mission was relocated here. After . . .

(Churches & Religion • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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