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THE INFANTRY HONORS SPECIALIST ROSS A. MCGINNIS, 1ST BATTALION, 26TH INFANTRY DIVISION, MEDAL OF HONOR, OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM 14 JUNE 2009,
MEMORIAL TO CAPTAIN HILLIARD ALMOND WILBANKS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR ACTIONS IN THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM.
COLONEL JOHN MCINTOSH A HERO OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. IT WAS COLONEL MCINTOSH, IN COMMAND OF FORT MORRIS AT SUNBURY, WHO WHEN BRITISH LIEUT. COL. L.V. FUSER DEMANDED THE SURRENDER OF THE FORT ON NOV 20, 1778, REPLIED "COME AND TAEK IT". COL. MCINTOSH H ...
THE FORT WAS CONSTRUCTED DURING THE WAR OF 1812 TO CONTROL THE CREEK INDIANS, WHO WERE IN ALLIANCE WITH THE BRITISH.
COL. JAMES S. MCINTOSH ACHIEVED AN IMMORTAL RECORD OF GALLANTRY IN THE WAR OF 1812 AND IN THE WAR WITH MEXICO. IN 1814 HE SAW CONSIDERABLE ACTION ON THE CANADIAN BORDER. HE WAS SERVERELY WOUNDED AT BUFFALO. IN THE MEXICAN WAR, COL. MCINTOSH WAS DESPERATEL ...
IN 1795 A CANNON BATTERY CONSTRUCTED ON POINT PETER PENINSULA BECAME THE FIRST SYSTEM OF U.S. COASTAL DEFENSES. DURING THE WAR OF 1812 A BRITISH FORCE OVERWHELMED 116 U.S. REGULARS, DESTROYING THE FORT.
DEDICATED TO THE TELFAIR COUNTIANS WHO DIED IN DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY IN ITS LAST FIVE WARS. THEY DIED THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE FREE.
DEDICATED TO ALL MEN IN THE VALHALLA WHICH ALL HEROES ASCEND.
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO HAVE MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE AND IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO SERVED.
