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SEE ALSO-GEORGE ROGERS CLARK WAR MEMORIAL

SEE ALSO-GEORGE ROGERS CLARK WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE

SEE ALSO-BRIGADIER-GENERAL HUGH MERCER WAR MEMORIAL

SEE ALSO-BRIGADIER-GENERAL HUGH MERCER WAR MEMORIAL FACE STONE

590 PRESENT FOR DUTY AT THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE 240 KILLED WOUNDED AND CAPTURED DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REGIMENT BY ITS DESCENDANTS MAY 1996

ERECTED TO MARK THE LINE OF BATTLE OF THE 114TH REG'T. PENNSYLVANIA VOL'S. ON THE MEMORABLE 3RD DAY OF MAY 1863, WHERE IT LOST 3 OFFICERS AND 35 ENLISTED MEN KILLED.

PRESENT FOR DUTY AT CHANCELLORSVILLE 300 KILLED-36 WOUNDED-114 TOTAL LOSS-150

TO COMMEMORATE THE SERVICES OF THE 15TH REGIMENT NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, COMMANDED BY COLONEL WILLIAM H. PENROSE, U.S.A., ENGAGED TWO HOURS ON THIS LINE OF BATTLE ON THE FEDERAL SIDE MAY 3RD, 1863 LOSS: 41 KILLED, 109 WOUNDED, 4 MISSING. THE SURV ...

TO COMMEMORATE THE SERVICES OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS INFANTRY, IN THE BATTLE OF SALEM CHURCH, VIRGINIA, MAY 3RD, 1863. TO THE MEMORY OF OUR HEROIC COMRADES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY'S UNITY, ON THIS BATTLEFIELD.

THE UNION ARMY'S USE OF BALLOONS BEGAN IN THE SUMMER OF 1861. AFTER OBSERVING CIVILIAN BALLOONIST THADDEUS LOWE FLOAT IN A BASKET 1500 FEET ABOVE WASHINGTON, D.C., PRESIDENT LINCOLN REALIZED THE MILITARY POTENTIAL FOR BALLOONS. HE PROMPTLY ESTABLISHED THE ...