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It runs up Hill 180, where the Battle of Bayonet Hill / Hill 180 Memorial is located. An annual memorial ceremony is hosted at this site under the lead of the US Army 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade and the Colonel Lewis L. Millett Hill 180 Memorial VFW (Veterans of Foreign War) Post 8180. [15]
Located in Avoyelles Parish, the fort, cemetery and water batteries were designated as a state historic site in 1994. [2] [3] The fort and the water battery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. [1] [4] The fort was named for Colonel Lewis G. DeRussy, the oldest West Point graduate to serve in the Confederate Army.
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The property comprises a small complex of buildings. The main Allstadt House (c. 1790) is a two-story L-shaped structure with a central brick chimney, built of nogging; stuccoed brick between timber uprights. The present structure was expanded from a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story house c. 1830.
Beall-Air, also known as the Colonel Lewis William Washington House, is a two-story stuccoed brick house in classical revival style near Halltown, West Virginia.It was the home of Colonel Lewis William Washington, great-great nephew of President George Washington and hostage in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
In 1856, Fuller sold it to Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, commander of the 31st Virginia Militia. Later, while commanding the 4th Virginia Infantry in the Confederate States Army , Moore offered his home to serve as headquarters for Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson .
In 1927, Greer met Mary Owings Smith of Olympia, Washington, when he was stationed at Fort Lewis in that state. [52] Later that year, he was living in San Francisco, at 2640 Van Ness Avenue. [53] Colonel Greer, 51, and Smith, 25, were married November 30, 1929, in San Francisco.
The entire battlefield is listed in the National Register as the Battle of Munfordville Site. This includes the Green River Bridge designed by Albert Fink and built by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1859, Fort Craig, a union-built star shaped wood and earthen fort, a small cemetery at the northern edge of the battlefield, and other buildings existing at the time.