Gettysburg Address Honeylocust
On a somber November morning in 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived in Gettysb...

Robert E. Lee Redbud
When Virginia withdrew from the Union , Lee resigned his commission rather than assist in suppressing the ins...

Ulysses S. Grant Locust
Ulysses S. Grant's military fame came later during the Civil War when, in 1864, following a bloody campaign sou...

Clara Barton Redbud
Born on December 25, 1821 in Oxford , Mass. , the youngest of 5 children in a middle-class family, Barton was educa...

Battery Park Live Oak
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina's Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession: "A geographic...

Harriet Beecher Stowe Live Oak
Harriet Beecher Stowe, although best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin about the cruelty of slavery, al...

Stratford Hall Black Locust
From its completion in the early 1740s, Stratford Hall, home to this black locust tree, was a teeming complex of...

Andersonville Southern Magnolia
Andersonville was the site of the largest prison run by the Confederate Army. 15,000...

Old Christ Church Live Oak
Old Christ Church is located in Pensacola , Florida at 405 South Adams Street , circa 1832. It is one of the o...

Robert E. Lee Sweetgum
Robert E. Lee graduated second in his class from the United States Military Academy with out receiving o...

Chickamauga Black Maple
The Chickamauga Black Maple stands among the trees that shade an important Civil War battlefield in northern Ge...

Battle of Selma Live Oak
On March 22, Union Gen. James H. Wilson started from his base in southern Tennessee to conquer it with tw...

Antietam Sycamore
Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's corps of 12,000 men had been trying to cross a 12-foot-wide bridge over Antietam Creek since...

Appomattox Court House Honey Locust
With an estimated age of 183 years at the time it died, the Appomattox Court Ho...

Lincoln's Tomb White Oak
The first of many funeral services for the fallen president, who was assassinated on Apr...

Robert E. Lee Southern Magnolia
At the Battle of Antietam, his Northern thrust was checked by McClellan; howeve...