Post Valentine’s Day Civil War marker update. Twenty additions to the Civil War category at the Historical Marker Database this week as we continue through the winter slows. Entries from Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin:
- From Fitzgerald, Georgia a state marker notes the home of William Jordon Bush. Bush was the last Georgia Confederate veteran when he died in 1952. A private during the war, Bush received the title of General as an officer in the United Confederate Veterans.
- The Bridge House in Albany, Georgia became a packing house supplying the Confederates during the war.
- More entertainment than Civil War, but we include it anyway… not one but two markers note the home of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, in Atlanta, Georgia.
- And another marker detailing the capture of Jefferson Davis in May 1865, this one in Irwinville near the state memorial site.
- The Confederate cemetery in Americus, Georgia contains the remains of many who died in the town’s wartime hospitals. When Federals occupied the town in 1865, they established a headquarters in the house of Confederate Treasurer and General Howell Cobb.
- A state marker outside Andersonville, Georgia provides some of the grim details of Camp Sumter, the infamous Confederate prison camp.
- From Fort Larned historic site in Kansas, a monument erected by soldiers just after the Civil War honors many who died at the fort, including Colonel J.B. McIntyre. An interpretive marker on site notes the fort lacked walls, using terrain as a defense.
- A tour marker in Independence, Missouri indicates the location of the Confederate line during the October 22, 1864 battle of Westport.
- In London, Ohio, the Madison County Veterans Memorial lists the names of the many from the county who served in the Civil War.
- A state marker outside Mercersburg, Pennsylvania notes the passing of General J.E.B. Stuart’s column on the October 1862 raid into Pennsylvania.
- A new marker in Manassas, Virginia discusses Clover Hill Farm. When war came, Rutt Johnson and family left the farm and returned to find it destroyed. They rebuilt the farm and established a substantial dairy, one of the last Civil War era farms in Manassas until closed in the 1950s.
- Another new marker, this one near Woodbridge, Virginia, notes the Wolf Run Shoals crossing of the Occoquan River. During the Revolution, Washington and Rochambeau crossed there while moving to Yorktown. During the Civil War both sides used the crossing, and Federals fortified the north bank.
- Several new interpretive markers on the Richmond Battlefields this week. These note the fighting at Beaver Dam Creek, Gaines’ Mill, and Cold Harbor.
- In Madison, Wisconsin, a plaque on the Fairchild Home notes the wartime service of Colonel Lucius Fairchild of the 2nd Wisconsin.
- In Oshkosh, Wisconsin the G.A.R. Memorial in Riverside Cemetery honors the community’s veterans.
