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During the American Civil War, Mound City was the site of the Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital. The cemetery was used to inter both Union and Confederate soldiers who died while under care at the hospital. After it was officially declared a National Cemetery in 1864, several nearby battlefield cemeteries arranged to have their remains ...
in part: jefferson davis, june 3, 1808-december 6, 1889, soldier scholar statesman, a graduate of west point military academy. he served the united states as colonel of mississippi volunteers. mexican war: member of house of representatives, senator, and as secretary of war.
USS Mound City was a City-class ironclad gunboat built for service on the Mississippi River and its tributaries in the American Civil War. Originally commissioned as part of the Union Army 's Western Gunboat Flotilla , she remained in that service until October 1862.
The Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital was a naval hospital in Mound City, Illinois, used by the United States Navy during the Civil War. The hospital was established in 1861 in an existing brick building claimed by the U.S. government. It became one of the largest Union hospitals in the western states during the war. [2]
Mound City National Cemetery: Jct. of IL 37 and US 51: Mound City: Pulaski County: Illinois: October 8, 1997 Quincy National Cemetery: 36th & Main Sts: Quincy: Adams County: Illinois: May 6, 2011 Rock Island National Cemetery: 0.25 mi N of southern tip of Rock Island: Moline: Rock Island County: Illinois: June 13, 1997 Crown Hill National ...
Daniel, who was in his 20s, was among those killed in the Tulsa Race Massacre, his family says.. More than 100 years later, the city of Tulsa honored Daniel at a memorial service last week after ...
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre saw a white mob torch the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, more commonly known as “Black Wall Street.” FOX 5 “They had been trying to reach a number of ...
The Battle of Chusto-Talasah, also known as Bird Creek, Caving Banks, and High Shoal, was fought December 9, 1861, in what is now Tulsa County, Oklahoma (then Indian Territory) during the American Civil War. It was the second of three battles in the Trail of Blood on Ice campaign for the control of Indian Territory during the American Civil War.