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Barnard Elliott Bee SC4
Born Charleston, S.C. 1824. Graduated West Point 1845. Brigadier General, C. S. A., 1861. Commanded 3rd Brigade, Army of the Shenanoah, July 21, 1861, at Manassas, Va. Where he gave Gen. T. J. Jackson the name “Stonewall.” Mortally wounded, he died July 22, 1861 and is buried in his family plot in St. Paul’s churchyard.
Hancock County Vietnam Memorial IL574
He looked up and saw her face.... Warsaw KIA April 2, 1966 JOHN EDWARD MILLER West Point KIA June 11, 1966 JOHN ROBERT PHILLIPS Bowen KIA December 23, 1967 ROBERT EUGENE SPIEGEL Laharpe KIA March 15, 1969 THOMAS MICHAEL TROTTER Carthage KIA June 1, 1969 RONALD DEAN McMILLEN Hamilton KIA December 16, 1969 DONALD RAY LAMBERT Augusta KIA December 27, 1969 JAMES STANLEY CERIONE Dallas City KIA February 8, 1968 * ROBERT CHARLES McMAHAN Warsaw MIA February 14, 1968 DAVID GARY REDENIUS Plymouth KIA April 16, 1968 ALONZO LEONARD DIXON, JR. Warsaw KIA May 22, 1968 SHERMAN DALE VANCE West Point KIA July 3, 1968 * Interred December 4, 1990 VIETNAM WAR 1964 .. 1975 REMEMBER ME HANCOCK COUNTY VIETNAM MEMORIAL
Samuel Ryan Curtis IA1
Born 1803 West Point 1826 - 1830. Colonel Mexican War Mayor of Keokuk, Member of Congress. Col. 2nd IA. Inf. & Brig. Gen. 1861. Maj. Gen. 1862 - 1866. Died 1866. Erected By The City of Keokuk To Her Soldiers, 1861 - 1865.
Pershing Road MO642
The road in front of Union Station was named for John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) in Europe during World War I. John J. Pershing was born September 13, 1860 in Laclede, Mo. The oldest of nine children, Pershing excelled academically and won an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1886. His service included the 6th Cavalry who fought against the Apache, the 10th Cavalry in Santiago campaign of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Pershing served in the Philippines from 1899 to 1903, and became military attaché to the U.S. embassy in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt raised his rank from Captain to Brigadier General, promoting him ahead of 862 higher-ranked officers. In 1916, after commanding the army that entered Mexico in pursuit of Poncho Villa and his rebels, he became a public figure in the United States. When sent to France in 1917 as commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, he insisted American Army would fight as an independent force, rather than merely filling the ranks of the battered Allies in their slow trench warfare. By Act of Congress, Pershing was named General of the Armies of the United States. He retired from active duty in 1924 and died July 14, 1948 at the age of 88.
Gainesville - Fort Sill Road TX6392
The U.S. Cavalry constructed roads to improve logistical routes in the west during the 19th century. Henry O. Flipper, the first African American graduate of West Point, was an officer in the Tenth Cavalry Regiment “Buffalo Soldiers” at Fort Sill, Indian Territory (Oklahoma). By late 1879, Fort Sill required a more significant railroad town than nearby Caddo Station, and the Army placed Flipper in command of building a road from Fort Sill to Gainesville. Two years later, the railroad reached Henrietta and replaced Gainesville as a Fort Sill supply town. Nevertheless, the construction of the Gainesville-Fort Sill Road is a historic example of the Buffalo Soldiers’ contributions to the west’s economic development.
General Charles King 1844-1933 WI422
Charles King, one of America's most illustrious soldiers was born in New York and Came to Milwaukee in 1845. His father was Rufus King, editor and publisher of the Milwaukee Sentinel and first commander of the famed Civil War Iron Brigade. Charles King graduated from West Point, took part in the Civil War, and served on active duty until 1879, when a serious battle wound during an Indian campaign forced his retirement. Returning to Wisconsin, King began a writing career popularizing the exploits of the U.S. calvary in the west. He also helped transform the state's militia system into the modern National Guard and commanded the Guard during the 1886 Labor riots in Bay View. King taught for many years at St. John's Military Academy in Delafield. Re-entering federal service during the Spanish-American War, King attained the rank of brigadier general and later participated in World War I. Spending more than seventy years in uniform--longer than any other soldier in American history--King also wrote and published extensively on military life. The village of King in Waupaca County bears his name.
Old Plum Grove Cemetery TX12172
Old Plum Grove Cemetery began as a family burial ground. Texas pioneer John Y. Criswell buried his wife, Eleanor, on this site. The Criswell family was part of Stephen F. Austin’s Third Colony, which arrived in Texas by 1830. In 1839, the Plum Grove Baptist Church, which would become linked to the cemetery, formed. This was one of the earliest Baptist Churches in the State of Texas. In 1851, John Click deeded land for the church and cemetery to the congregation. Church participation declined in the 1860s, and by the end of the decade, the congregation moved its place of worship. Soon, though, the nearby community of West Point started to grow and began using the burial ground. The earliest grave here dates to 1835. Other graves include those of military veterans involved in conflicts dating to the Texas Revolution. The cemetery had two sections – one where whites were interred and the other for African American burials. Today, as one cemetery, the site serves as a monument to the history of the surrounding communities.
Heritage SD4
Colonel Samuel D. Sturgis, for whom the town of Sturgis is named, came from a military family that included officers who had served in the American Revolution and the War of 1812. He graduated from West Point in 1846 and was promoted to the rank of Major General during the Civil War. He commanded the famed Seventh U. S. Cavalry from May 6, 1869, until his retirement in 1886. One of his sons was killed in the historic Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. Another son, Samuel D. Sturgis II, was a general in World War I and a grandson, Samuel D. Sturgis III, became a general during World War II. Colonel Sturgis was one of the earliest post commanders at nearby Fort Meade when it was established in 1878 with his Seventh Cavalry as the principal garrison. He was a member of the Townsite Company that founded the town named for him. He was also a vigorous booster of the Black Hills and an active participant in the early development of the region. His retirement at Fort Meade on June 11, 1886, at age sixty-five, marked the end of forty years of outstanding service to his country. He died at St. Paul, MN, on September 29, 1889, and was buried with honors at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Camp Walker AR16
--- * * * --- This camp was established in June, 1861, by Brig. Gen. Nicholas Bart Pearce, a Benton County man, to train recruits from Western Arkansas and the Indian Nation. He was a West Point graduate. Many Arkansas units, Greer's Texas regiment, Hebert's 3d Louisiana, went from this camp to Camp Stephens and on to join in the battle of Wilson's Creek. The training ground covered about two square miles. The marker is set near the officers' quarters on the ridge and a large rocked-up well used by them.
Brig. Gen. William E. 'Grumble' Jones, C.S.A. K-51
"Brig. Gen. William Edmondson “Grumble” Jones was born nearby on 9 May 1824, Educated at Emory and Henry College and the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, Jones served on the Frontier from 1848 until he resigned in 1857. He organized the Washington Mounted Rifles as it captain when Virginia seceded in 1861, became colonel of the 1st and then the 7th Virginia Cavalry, and was promoted to brigadier general in Sept. 1862. Jones was killed at the Battle of Piedmont on 5 June 1864 and buried here in the Old Glade Springs Presbyterian Cemetery" Display # 1 - 10 of 75 |