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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K10_cavalry-review_Fredericksburg-VA.html
On April 6, 1863 near here "on an elevated plain", President Lincoln reviewed 13,000-17,000 men on horseback. the cavalry review was said to be the largest in the world. Reporters wrote it was a grand sight "with banners waving, music crashing, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K0Z_lincoln-review_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Nearby here was Sthreshley Farm, site of Abraham Lincoln's Grand Review. On April 8, 1863, 60,000 men passed the president who sat on a horse for the long, 5½ hour review. 10 year old Tad stayed by his father, while Mrs. Lincoln watched from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JYE_redoubt-2_Stafford-VA.html
Approximately seventy yards to the northeast of this sign on private property are the well preserved remains of Redoubt #2, the last surviving and largest of three built by the Union Army of the Potomac in February and March of 1863 to defend Aqui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JY7_crows-nest_Stafford-VA.html
Named after the black schooner called The Crow that harbored off the peninsula in the mid-1800s, Crow's Nest Peninsula is one of the last great, undisturbed places in the mid-Atlantic area. With both a rich history and remarkable environmental val…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I5J_yeckel-hall_Stafford-VA.html
Graduated Officer Candidates School and commissioned a Second Lieutenant at Quantico, Virginia in 1942.
Serving in World War II and the Korean Conflict, Colonel Yeckel was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for heroic achievement in operati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I5I_taylor-hall_Stafford-VA.html
Platoon Sergeant, Company A
Officer Candidates School
January 1966 - January 1968
Company I, 3rd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, Operation Meade River, Republic of Vietnam
SSgt Taylor, mortally wounded in combat against the enemy on December …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HXW_gonzalez-hall_Stafford-VA.html
Sergeant Alfredo Gonzalez
United States Marine Corps
Platoon Commander
Third Platoon, Company A, First Battalion
First Marines, First Marine Division
Awarded the Medal of Honor, Hue City, Vietnam from 31 January to 4 February 1968
This galla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HXV_pokorney-hall_Stafford-VA.html
1st Lt Frederick E. Pokorney, Jr.
United States Marine Corps
Artillery Forward Observer
Company C, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines
Task Force Tarawa
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Posthumously awarded the Silver Star Medal for actions during the Ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HXU_mcglothlin-hall_Stafford-VA.html
1st Lt Donald R. McGlothlin
United States Marine Corps
Rifle Platoon Commander, Company F,
Battalion Landing Team 2/1
Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division
II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)
Posthumously awarded the Silver Star …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HXT_manion-hall_Stafford-VA.html
1st Lt Travis L. Manion
United States Marine Corps
Company Advisor, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division Military Transition Team
Regimental Combat Team 6, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)
Posthumously Awarded the Silver …