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Red Oak Public Library

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Iowa, Montgomery County, Red Oak

This property is listed in the
National Register of Historic Places
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The gift of
Andrew Carnegie

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.


Baldwin's Brigade

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Georgia, Catoosa County, near Fort Oglethorpe
Baldwin's Brigade
Johnson's Division - McCook's Corps.
Colonel William W. Berry.

September 20, 1863 - 1st Position.

6th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel Hagerman Tripp.
6th Indiana - Major Calvin D. Campbell.
5th Kentucky - Captain John M. Huston.
1st Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Bassett Langdon.
93d Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel William H. Martin.
Indiana Light Artillery, 5th Battery, - Captain Peter Simonson.

The Brigade formed on this ground early Sunday morning in two lines and constructed log works. The 6th Indiana was on the right and the 93d Ohio on the left of the first line; the 5th Kentucky on the right, and the 1st Ohio on the left of the second line, the battery being on the left of the Brigade. Upon the appearance of Breckinridge's troops in the Kelly field the 5th Kentucky charged upon their left flank and assisted in their repulse. The Brigade fought heavily during the forenoon, and at intervals during the afternoon until ordered to withdraw about 5:30, while a general attack along the lines was in progress, when it crossed to the woods west of the Kelly field and proceeded with the Army to Rossville. Losses September 19th and 20th, killed 57; wounded 385; captured and missing 126, total 568.

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

93rd Ohio Infantry

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Georgia, Catoosa County, near Fort Oglethorpe
93d Regiment
Ohio Infantry,
Baldwin's
Brigade.
10:00 P. M.
September 19,
to 5:30 P.M.
September 20,
1863.



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

1st Ohio Infantry

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Georgia, Catoosa County, near Fort Oglethorpe
1st Regiment
Ohio Infantry,
Baldwin's
Brigade.
10:00 P. M.
September 19,
to 5:30 P.M.
September 20,
1863.



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

The Applegate Trail

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California, Modoc County, near Fort Bidwell
Southern Route to Oregon
In 1846, Jesse Applegate and fourteen others from near Dallas, Oregon, established a trail south from the Willamette Valley and east to Fort Hall. This route offered emigrants an alternative to the perilous "last leg" over the Oregon Trail down the treacherous Colombia River.
The first emigrants to trek the new "Southern Route" left with the trailblazers from Fort Hall in early August 1846. With Levi Scott acting as guide, while Jesse Applegate traveled ahead to mark the route, the hardy emigrants blazed a wagon trail through nearly 500 miles of wilderness arriving in the upper Willamette Valley in November. Emigrants travel continued along the Applegate Trail in later years and contributed greatly to the settlement of southern Oregon and the Willamette Valley.

Are we there yet?
Beginning in 1846 travelers on the Applegate Trail bound for Oregon crossed the Warner Mountains through this pass. This pass was also trekked by the "forty-niners" during the California gold rush on a route pioneered by Peter Lassen in 1848. Early travelers believed (incorrectly) that this ridge was part of the Sierra Nevada Range and thought that once crossed the trip was almost over. Cresting these mountains was cause for celebration - including a popular 19th century dance called the Fandango.
Cross over a mountain, the ascent about 2 miles and quite steep. Travel 9 miles and camp in a beautiful plain surrounded by stately pine and cedar. Excellent for our stock. - Virgil K. Pringle, September 20, 1846

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

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

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California, Modoc County, Alturas
begun 1883
completed 1910
Designated a National Historic Place by the United States Department of the Interior
in the Pontificate of Pope John Paul II in the Episcopate of Bishop Francis Quinn
in the Pastorate of Reverend James Streets
The Centennial Year

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

This Site is Birth Place of Local History

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Kentucky, Clay County, Manchester


Salt works established early 1790s; Clay County established here in 1807

     The Goose Creek Salt Works dates from the mid 1790s when it was known as the “Langford Works” and was well known throughout Kentucky and in Tennessee and Virginia. The local works was recognized as one of Kentucky’s most important industries since salt was of paramount importance in preserving food. Getting salt to market was considered so vital that in 1801 the state legislature enacted a law that allowed salt producers to take extraordinary measures to move their product across private property. In 1802, five years before there was a Clay County, the legislature approved funds for a road to be built to the site where you are standing from the famous Wilderness Road near present-day Livingston, in Rockcastle County.
     Salt was produced here in large iron kettles arranged in two rows over a stonework furnace, by boiling brine water from springs and wells on the site. The salt was stored in casks made by local barrel makers, and was transported at first by pack animals, and later, when crude roads and weather permitted, by wagons and carts such as those depicted in the illustration. The bulk of the salt was moved, however, by salt barges, flat-bottomed boats sixty feet long built by local men. Obviously, as a look at adjacent Goose Creek will show, this meant waiting for winter and spring floods. When the “salt tides” came, vast amounts of salt was taken on the barges down Goose Creek and then the South Fork of the Kentucky River to markets in the Bluegrass and beyond. Several bargemen drowned when their boats capsized in the treacherous rapids of the “narrows” downstream from here.
     Beginning in 1809, the state legislature passed several acts that called for improving navigation on Goose Creek and the South Fork for the express purpose of transporting salt from this works and, later, from others along Goose Creek and Collins Fork of Goose Creek.

Why here?
The salt works, county, and City of Manchester started here because of their proximity to the Warrior’s Path that ran along Goose Creek at this site. See adjacent sign.

Clay County started here

     By 1806 the little village around the Langford Works was being called the Goose Creek Salt Works. Pioneering salt maker Hugh White built his well-stocked wilderness store at the site that year and purchased one-quarter interest in the salt works.
     It was here, on April 13, 1807, that the first meeting of the new Clay County government (county and circuit courts) met in the cabin of Robert Baker. Many of the best-known pioneer settlers, including Baker, Adoniram Allen, John Gilbert, and others were here on that day along with prominent salt men such as Hugh White and Daniel Garrard and a few wilderness lawyers.
     It was here that much of the early drama associated with the founding of the county (including the hanging, in August that year, of Joel Elkins for the murder of salt man John Amis) was played out. The town of Manchester would eventually be built a short distance downstream on land donated by the salt men, including Amis.

The Jesse Cotton Cabin

     Robert Baker’s cabin is represented here by the Jesse Cotton cabin, one of the oldest such structures still standing in Kentucky. Remarkably, the Cotton cabin, which was moved from its original location downstream at Cotton Bend, was already upwards of a decade old when the court met in Baker’s cabin that day in the Spring of 1807.
     The cabin has been in the Cotton family since it was occupied by Jesse Cotton and his wife, Jane Griffin Cotton, at the time of their marriage in 1812. Prior to that the cabin belonged to Jane’s family, headed by Zakariah Griffin, one of county’s relatively few free black men. The cabin dates to before 1800 though a precise date is impossible to document.
     According to family lore and local historical references, it dates to about 1792. It was moved from the Big Hickory Golf Course to this site in December, 2010 by the City of Manchester. It is fitting that a cabin built and owned by a black family now represents ground zero of Clay County history since it was mostly slaves who provided the labor in producing salt, the commodity that was the source of the county’s founding.


This historical site is a project of the Clay County Genealogical and Historical Society and the City of Manchester. It is dedicated to all Clay Countians past, present and future and is intended as an educational tool to acquaint our people with their rich heritage and history.

(Upper Right Illustration Caption)
Salt customers waiting to load the valuable cargo. At first salt was transported by pack animals, then by carts and wagons when trails were improved and roads built. When winter and spring “salt tides” allowed, the salt barrels were transported by flat-bottomed barges sixty feet long. Several bargemen lost their lives at the “narrows” of the South Fork of the Kentucky River downstream from here as the raging flood waters capsized the huge boats.

(Lower Left Illustration Caption)
The first Clay County government meeting took place April 13, 1807 at the cabin of Robert Baker, which was located at or near the salt works. The lively meeting was attended by fancy-dressing salt men and lawyers as well as rough pioneer settlers such as Adoniram Allen and John Gilbert.

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Salt Works was located along the old Warrior's Path

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Kentucky, Clay County, Manchester
Originally this site was probably a salt lick used by buffalo, which made the path to it. Indians used the path to make war between northern and southern tribes. Numerous early American explorers used the path as did hunters, who found animals conveniently congregated around the lick. When word got out about the salty water, entrepreneurs flocked to the site to manufacture valuable salt.

     Salty water was most likely discovered at this site owning to its proximity to the famous Warrior’s Path, a north-south trail used for centuries by American Indians and by buffalo, which created the trail in the first place as they searched for salt licks. When early explorers first came across the Cumberland Gap into the Kentucky territory, they followed the well-marked path, which led from one end of present day Clay County to the other, along Otter Creek, Goose Creek and Sextons Creek.
     The first known person of European descent to use the path in this location was Gabriel Arthur, a young man employed by an English trading company who in 1673 got captured by Indians in present-day Tennessee and taken captive to present-day Ohio. When the Indians released him, they told Arthur to follow the well-marked path back to where he had been captured – which would have put him a stone’s throw from where you’re standing.
     The first explorer to use the path was Dr. Thomas Walker, who is credited with “discovering” the Cumberland Gap when he came to explore the Kentucky wilderness. Walker and his party came by this site in May of 1750 after constructing a small structure on the Cumberland River near present-day Barbourville. He recorded in his diary that he counted upwards of 100 buffalo at a lick near the present-day Paces Creek, just upstream from this site.
     The next explorer to come by here was the most famous of all, Daniel Boone, who used the path on his first extended hunting expedition in Kentucky in 1769, several years before he blazed his famous trail in present-day Laurel County. It would be another 15 years or so before Boone came back to Goose Creek, this time as a surveyor for a large tract of land that included present-day Manchester.

Many troops from both sides passed by here during Civil War

     In the late summer of 1862 a force of nearly 10,000 Union Army soldiers marched by here on their way from Cumberland Gap in a trek known to historians as the “Magnificent Retreat.” The army was fleeing from a superior force of Confederates that had surrounded them back at the Gap. The Union forces, commanded by Brig. General George Morgan, camped near here for two days, during which a local soldier named Lewis Stivers shot a fellow-soldier, was court-marshaled and executed.
     The extremely rough condition of the trail in this section made wagon travel painfully slow. Gen. Morgan ordered that 100 wagons be burned here so that his troops could keep ahead of the pursuing Rebels. A few months later the Union ordered that the Goose Creek Salt Works and others upstream be destroyed to keep salt out of the hands of the enemy. The salt industry would never recover from the blow.
     Throughout the Civil War both sides of the conflict “foraged” for food along the trail and use it to move troops and supplies between the Cumberland Gap and the Bluegrass. After the war the old trail faded from use and memory as new roads and, eventually, the railroad were built.

(Lower Right Drawing Caption)
Dr. Thomas Walker (above) used the path when he was returning from his exploration of Kentucky in 1750.
     After the American Revolution the path was used by settlers like Clay County’s first resident, John Gilbert (right).

(Colonial Era • Exploration • Native Americans • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Struggle for the Big Sandy Valley

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Kentucky, Floyd County, Ivel
While the debate over Kentucky’s neutrality raged in Frankfort, men of the Big Sandy Region were taking action. For Jack May, Hiram Hawkins, John S. Williams, and others, the choice had already been made. President Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers to “put down the rebellion” and the legislative elections of August, 1861, which installed a Unionist majority in Frankfort, were all that was needed for local secessionists to flock to the Samuel May House in Prestonsburg and enlist in the Confederate Army.

This pre-Confederate activity caused genuine concern at the newly established Union headquarters in Louisville. Colonel John Williams’ plan may have been to use Prestonsburg as a staging point for a Confederate advance into Central Kentucky. By mid-October, he was in command of all the Confederate troops in the region and was drilling 1,000 soldiers at his camp north of Prestonsburg. However, the region’s roads were so poor that it was impossible for the Confederate government to provide him with arms and ammunition.

This, coupled with a lack of support from Confederate forces based in Southwestern Virginia, made any attempt to launch an offensive from Prestonsburg virtually impossible.

Following the engagement at Ivy Mountain, Williams retreated southward from Pikeville and established a camp at Pound Gap. Meanwhile, General Humphrey Marshall was placed in command of all Confederate troops in Southwestern Virginia and ordered to proceed to Prestonsburg “for the protection and defense of that frontier.” On November 26th he left his base at Wytheville and marched to Pound Gap with two infantry regiments, a regiment of cavalry, and a battery of artillery. By this time Union General “Bull” Nelson had evacuated his troops from the region, reasoning that his foe’s lack of supplies and the lateness of the season made a Confederate counter-attack unlikely.

Marshall reached Pound Gap on November 28th, and, after issuing rifles and uniforms to Williams’ command, began advancing into Eastern Kentucky. By December 22nd his Virginia regiments and several companies of the 5th Kentucky were camped three miles south of Paintsville on the farm of Daniel Hager. While Marshall’s army was moving down the Big Sandy, a large Federal force under Colonel James A. Garfield was moving up the valley. The first skirmish between the two armies occurred at Tom’s Creek, two miles below Paintsville, on January 4, 1862. Thus the stage was set for the decisive Battle of Middle Creek, which occurred six days later.

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

The Battle of Ivy Mountain

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Kentucky, Floyd County, Ivel
The Battle of Ivy Mountain November 8, 1861 In the Fall of 1861, General William “Bull” Nelson, Union commander in Northeastern Kentucky, was ordered to break up a large Confederate recruiting camp at Prestonsburg. The camp was located in the big meadow below the Samuel May House, the Confederate recruiting station and birthplace of Captain Andrew Jackson May. With the approach of Nelson’s forces, Colonel John S. Williams, whose Confederate recruits were ill-equipped and low on ammunition, abandoned Prestonsburg and fell back to Pikeville. Planning to turn or cut the rebels off, Nelson divided his forces at Prestonsburg and sent one detachment under Colonel Joshua Sill up John’s Creek while he led the main column up the Big Sandy River. As the Union columns converged on his new position at Pikeville, Colonel Williams ordered a large detachment under Captain May to delay Nelson’s advance. May’s men took up position at this point. Waiting in ambush above what was then a narrow bend in the road, May’s Confederates surprised the Federals with a heavy volley but were driven from the heights by superior numbers. May retired toward Pikeville, felling trees and burning bridges to further delay Nelson’s pursuit. After fighting (illegible) Sill’s column at Pikeville on November 9th, Williams (illegible) the Virginia line. The first major clash in Eastern Kentucky, the Battle of Ivy Mountain, ended the first phase of the (illegible)

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

The Battle of Ivy Mountain

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Kentucky, Floyd County, Ivel

(Front Side)
Here, on Nov. 8, 1861, 300 men from Companies A & C, 5th Kentucky Infantry, C.S.A. and Companies B, C, & D, 1st Battalion Kentucky Mounted Rifles, C.S.A., commanded by Captain Andrew J. May, fought a delaying action against four Federal regiments; the 2nd Ohio Infantry, the 21st Ohio Infantry, the 59th Ohio Infantry, the 16th Kentucky Infantry, and a section of Battery D, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, commanded by General William “Bull” Nelson.

(Back Side)
Mustered into service just two weeks earlier and armed only with shotguns and squirrel rifles, May’s Confederate mountaineers were outnumbered eight to one. Nevertheless, they detained Nelson’s progress long enough to allow Colonel John S. Williams to vacate Piketon (Pikeville) and move the main body of Confederate troops to Pound Gap. Union losses were eight killed and twenty-four wounded. Confederate losses were ten killed and fifteen wounded.

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

Canton Veterans Memorial

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Connecticut, Hartford County, Canton
Canton Veterans Memorial
In Grateful Memory Of The
Men Who Died In The Service
Of Their Country And In
Recognition To All Men
And Women Who Served
That Freedom Might Live.
This Monument Stands So
That Future Generations
Will Always Remember.

Dedicated Nov. 11, 2001
World War I   1917 – 1918 Giovanni Filice • Austin E. Mahan • Antoni Smilowicz • Benedik Wicha • Albert H. Johnson
World War II   1941 – 1946 John K. Luntta • Octave A. Martin, Jr. • Stanley J. Zionce • Robert F. Olson • Frederick J. Yeske • John H. Stephenson, Jr. • George H. Pierce • George L. Fournier • Sterling W. Bristol, Jr. • Anthony Zommer • Gordon M. Goodrich • Joseph P. Charette • Michael B. Dubiel • Harold A. Parent • John M. Darosz • Ralph G. Olson
Korean War   1950 – 1955 Leonard H. Smith • Carl F. Olson
Vietnam War   1964 – 1975 Thomas H. Perry • Robert L. Scheidel, Jr.

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World War Memorial

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Iowa, Montgomery County, Red Oak

Montgomery Co. World War Heroes
Who Died In Service

William Bryan Ackles • Edward Barnes • Oscar L. Benson • Andrew J. Brown • Frank R. Brown • Estey Harold Brownlee • John Bruce • Marion R. Campbell • Paul Denlinger • Henry H. Fall • Victor Frist • Lawrence W. Gridley • Charles E. Hand • George H. Hawking • Rennie E. Henry • James M. Herbert • Clem Hite • Clem Hobbs • George V. Hunt • Ernest G. Johnson • George F. Jones • Glen R. Kendrick • John I. M. Kindberg • Rupert D. Knee • Frederic W. Lampman • Axel Herman Larson • Clarence Anders Lonn • Daniel L. A. Mainquist • Frank Montgomery • Leonidus S. Munday • Elmer V. Nord • Lester D. Purcell • Robert H. Reed • Myron I. Rickelton • Elmer G. Sander • Maurice Bremner Stephenson • Ernest R. Talbott • Norbert T. Wilson • Orville C. Winters
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Montgomery Co. World War Heroes
Who Have Died Since The War

Capt. John C. Christopher, Two Citations, Three Decorations • William N. Donohue, Chaplain • Louis A. Taylor • Clarence B. Isaacs • John Donald Butler • Frank J. Taylor • Clarence A. Quist • Emanuel S. Trybom • Reuben E. Swanson
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In Memoriam [markers from the]
National Daughters of the Grand Army of the Republic • American Legion Auxiliary • Rotary Club • M.W.A. 338 - R.N.A. 371
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The 2004 restoration of the
World War I Memorial Fountain
was made possible by the
generous contributions of the
citizens, businesses, and groups of
Montgomery County
and the surrounding area.
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Dedicated to the memory of
Charles E. Good
1921 - 2004
A man who loved his family and Red Oak, Iowa.
In recognition of the generous contribution
making possible the completion of the
2004 Fountain Restoration Project.

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 13 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mr. Richard H. Simpson

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Iowa, Montgomery County, Red Oak

With love and respect,
dedicated to the memory of
Mr. Richard H. Simpson
Red Oak's "Band Man" from 1941-1980
From this site he directed
hundreds of concerts,
teaching his students to always
strive for the best.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Gastown

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New York, Erie County, Tonawanda
In 1884, the Tonawanda Gas Light Company was incorporated to supply gas to both Tonawanda and North Tonawanda for street and house lighting.
The "gas works" was located on property once owned by Mary Long. Between the Canandaigua and Erie railroads, it consisted of a brick building on East South Canal Street and of a huge tank 60 feet in diameter. The tank consisted of two cylinders, one of which was inside the other. One cylinder was stationary and the other movable, rising and falling in accordance with the amount of gas inside. When the gas works tank was up, it was noticeable from a great distance and became, therefore, a well-known landmark. As years passed, the entire area eastward from the confluence of Ellicott Creek and the Erie Canal became commonly known as "Gastown". And today, the name persists.

In the photo at left, the framework of the tank indicates how high the movable cylinder could climb. From where you are standing, you can see the building in the photo as it exists today.

Canalboat nearing completion in yard of Ira M. Rose on Ellicott Creek, circa 1890. One of many boatyards in the Gastown area.

On a Oile of Wood Shavings - Shingle Mill Employees, 1880s.

The Lumber Mills of Tonawanda.
The Tonawandas resounded with the screeching, humming sounds of its many mills. Sawdust was tracked everywhere; the very smell of it was in the air. Sdaly, it was not unusual to see local men missing fingers or hands as a result of accidents on the job, accidents that could prove fatal as well.

Lumber Fire at the Eastern Lumber Company in Gastown.

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Honor of Edward John Noble

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New York, Saint Lawrence County, Gouverneur

In honor of
Edward John Noble
1882 - 1958
industrialist, financier, philanthropist.
This pep-o-mint replica was his Life Saver Co's
first flavor & originally displayed
at his Port Chester plant.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Tribute to Rhoda Fox Graves

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New York, Saint Lawrence County, Gouverneur

In tribute to
Rhoda Fox Graves,
first female NYS Senator.
Served in state legislature
from 1925-1933, and the
State Senate from 1935-1949.

(Civil Rights • Politics) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Bermuda Hundred Campaign

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Virginia, Chesterfield County, Chester
Photograph of the ironclad ram Atlanta. The Atlanta was built by the Confederacy and was captured at Savannah Ga. by Federal forces in 1863. It saw service on the James River in the US Navy. The ship was decommissioned in 1865 and was sold to Haiti in 1869. The Atlanta disappeared at sea off of Cape Hatteras in December 1869 while in route to Haiti. This photograph was taken from near this location in March of 1865.

This sign was sponsored by Norman Dasinger Jr., Gadsden, AL

(War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Bermuda Hundred Campaign

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Virginia, Chesterfield County, Chester
Photograph of the Union ironclad Saugus taken from near this location in March 1865. The log boom on the bow of the Saugus is a field adaptation to protect it from Confederate mines in the river.

This sign was sponsored by Edwin C. Bearss, Arlington, VA

(War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Siege of Petersburg

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Virginia, Chesterfield County, Chester

The Battle of Trent's Reach

On the night of Jan. 23, 1865, the ironclads Virginia II, Richmond, and Fredericksburg, with five smaller vessels, descended the James River in an effort to attack the Union supply depot at City Point. Recent floods had partially washed away the Union obstructions at Trent's Reach. Also, most of the Union warships in the James River had been sent to North Carolina to attack Fort Fisher near Wilmington. With the obstructions washed out, only the monitor U.S.S. Onondaga and a handful of wooden vessels protected City Point.

The Confederate ships were able to slip past Union guns upriver at Fort Brady and reached the obstructions at Trent's Reach by 10:30 P.M. The Fredericksburg and gunboat Hampton managed to pass through the barrier. The Virginia II and Richmond ran aground in the shoals of Trent's Reach. During the night the torpedo boat Scorpion and the armed tender Drewry also ran aground. The Fredericksburg and Hampton were recalled upriver to protect the other ships.

When the sun rose on the 24th, Union cannon in Battery Parsons opened fire on the Drewry. The third shot caused the Drewry to explode. The shock from the blast dislodged the Scorpion and sent her drifting downstream into Union hands. The Union shore batteries then began to pound the Richmond and Virginia II.

By 10:45 A.M., the Virginia II and Richmond floated free as the double-turreted U.S.S. Onondaga came upriver. From a half mile the ship's 15-inch guns delivered several direct hits to the Virginia II before the ironclad could get out of range. The Confederates found shelter in a bend of the river just opposite Battery Dantzler. The next day, they retired upriver to Chaffin's Bluff. The threat to Grant's supply base was over.

This sign was sponsored by David, Patricia, Henry, Audrey and Ava DuBose, Jacksonville, FL

(captions)
(upper right) The Battle of Trent's Reach
(lower right) Wreckage of the CSS Drewry after the Battle of Trent's Reach; USS Onondaga on the James River (Photographs from Library of Congress)

(War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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