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In the battle for control of the triangular field, the 124th New York lost 28 men killed, 57 wounded, and 5 missing. [5] Ellis's body was returned to New York City, where he was buried in St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. The specific location of Ellis' body in the churchyard was uncertain until 2007, when the burial site was positively ...
Strong was born in Stockbridge, Vermont, and attended Williston Seminary but left after 1851. Strong's ancestors all came to from England, and they all arrived in early colonial New England as part of the Puritan migration to New England between 1620 and 1640. [1]
The Battle of Fort Bull was a French attack on the British-held Fort Bull on 27 March 1756, early in the French and Indian War. The fort was built to defend a portion of the waterway connecting Albany, New York to Lake Ontario via the Mohawk River .
First Battle of Bull Run † Brig. Gen. Barnard Bee leads the 4th Alabama against Matthew's Hill Barnard Bee Jr. monument at Manassas National Battlefield Park Barnard Elliott Bee Jr. (February 8, 1824 – July 22, 1861) was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War .
Manassas National Battlefield Park is a unit of the National Park Service located in Prince William County, Virginia, north of Manassas that preserves the site of two major American Civil War battles: the First Battle of Bull Run, also called the Battle of First Manassas, and the Second Battle of Bull Run or Battle of Second Manassas.
Fort Bull was located at the Oneida Carry in British North America (now New York, United States) during the French and Indian War. On October 29, 1755 Governor William Shirley ordered Captain Mark Petrie to take the men under his command and to build a fort on the upper landing of Wood Creek to protect the Oneida Carry .
William "Bull" Nelson (September 27, 1824 – September 29, 1862) was a United States naval officer who became a Union general during the American Civil War.. As a Kentuckian, Nelson could have sympathized with the Confederates but, like his state, he remained loyal to the United States of America.
Among three Battle Honours awarded to the RNR for the War of 1812, it carries the Theatre Honour, Defence of Canada 1812-1815, for services rendered by the Regiment in engagements throughout the War, including the Battle of Mackinac Island. Most of the site of the Battle of Mackinac Island is now the Wawashkamo Golf Links, laid out in 1898.