
work in progress==This master project will be the portal listing the various Union POW camps and prisons, and those who were prisoners and guards.==List of Prisoner-of-War camps== Camp Butler - Springfield, Illinois - 3,000 (the largest of the Union's eight prison camps established for Confederate non-commissioned officers and privates).* Camp Chase – Columbus, Ohio - 10,000 (the largest of the...
Disclaimer: This project is not endorsed by the Cotton States League Baseball. This project is for genealogy and educational purposes. Cotton States League (1902-1955) Minor League Baseball:
This is for those who served on Edsall Class Destroyer Escort Ships. Media: Used in anti-sub warfare and escort duty. Used in the early days of the Cold War as Pickett ships. Conflicts : American Revolution: American Civil War: Rear-Admiral Richard Inch,Rear Admiral John Elliot Pillsbury, Commander John Pope, (USA) Battle of the Head of Passes October 12, 1861: Commander John Pope, ...
Navy Expeditionary Medal:
Wikipedia The Congressional Cemetery or Washington Parish Burial Ground is a historic and active cemetery located at 1801 E Street, SE, in Washington, D.C., on the west bank of the Anacostia River. It is the only American "cemetery of national memory" founded before the Civil War. Over 65,000 individuals are buried or memorialized at the cemetery, including many who helped form the nation and...
The Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal is a United States military award of the Second World War, which was awarded to any member of the United States Armed Forces who served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater from 1941 to 1945. The medal was created on November 6, 1942, by Executive Order 9265 issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The medal was designed by Thomas Hudson Jones; the reverse side wa...
The Good Conduct Medal is one of the oldest military awards of the United States Armed Forces. The U.S. Navy's variant of the Good Conduct Medal was established in 1869, the Marine Corps version in 1896, the Coast Guard version in 1923, the Army version in 1941, and the Air Force version in 1963; the Air Force Good Conduct Medal was temporarily discontinued from February 2006 to February 2009, ...
Presidential Unit Citation (United States):
The American Campaign Medal is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was first created on November 6, 1942, by Executive Order 9265 issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The medal was intended to recognize those military members who had performed military service in the American Theater of Operations during World War II. A similar medal, known as the American Defense Ser...
World War II Victory Medal:
The Combat Action Ribbon, is a high precedence United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States Marine Corps military decoration awarded to United States sea service members "who have actively participated in ground or surface combat." Coast Guardsmen, Navy sailors, and Marines active in clandestine, stealth or special operations are deemed eligible for consideration of the awar...
The Honolulu Memorial is located within the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in an extinct volcano near the center of Honolulu, Hawaii. On either side of the grand stairs leading to the memorial are eight courts of the missing on which are inscribed the names of the 18,095 American World War II missing from the Pacific, excluding those from the southwest Pacific, and 8,210 American mi...
Nelson CC early settlers database Thomas Harrison Ship: 370 tons Captain: E M Smith Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Thomas Renwick Sailed London May 26th 1842 - arrived Nelson October 25th 1842 Cabin Passengers Cambell Matthew 27 Cooke Henry Landholder Cooke John Landholder Deans John 22 Farmer Newcombe Richard Gentleman Ren...
Early New Zealand Shipping Index: This project aims to catalog the first generation of European immigrants to New Zealand during the 1800s (19th century arrivals), and to organize them by the ships they arrived on (dates used are the ones that the ship arrived in New Zealand on). Please add your pioneer ancestors to the project by going to their profile, click "actions" click "add to project". ...
USS Vance (DE-387) ENS.Joseph Williams Vance Jr.
USS Parrott (DD-218) : George Fountain Parrott
Battle of Makassar Strait 2/4/1942
USS Lansing (DE-388): William Henry Lansing
USS Durant (DE-389/WDE-489/DER-389) PHM3.Kenneth W. Durant
USS Oklahoma Memorial Pearl Harbor, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA Memorial located in Pearl Harbor on Ford Island, adjacent to the location where the USS Oklahoma was when sank and capsized during December 7 attack. The name of each of the 429 sailors/Marines killed is listed on individual granite slabs cut and processed in Oklahoma.
Wikipedia The United States Army (USA) is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces that performs land-based military operations. It is also the largest overall and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services. The modern army has its roots in the Continental Army which was formed on 14 June 1775, to meet the demands of the American Re...
List of United States Army Corps of Engineers Chiefs of Engineers==
The Mexican–American War , also known as the First American Intervention , the Mexican War , or the U.S.–Mexican War , was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.Combat operations lasted a year and a half, from spring 1846 to fall 18...
'The justice system in the United States is one of the most unique in the world. It consists of two separate levels of courts, state and federal, that can peacefully co-exist under the concept of federalism . The type of court that a case is tried in depends on the law, state or federal, that was allegedly violated. Most of the laws that govern our day-to-day living are state laws; violations o...
USS Flaherty (DE-135): ENS. Francis C. Flaherty: