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The Battery remained here until the end of May 1863, when they left to garrison Fort Ramsey and Fort Buffalo near Upton Hill, VA (east of Falls Church, VA). By June, they returned to Washington. They left the capital on 28 October 1863, now becoming part of the reserve artillery stationed in Nashville, TN.
Upton's Hill, or Upton Hill, is a geographic eminence located in western Arlington County, Virginia. Its summit rises to 413 feet (126 m) above sea level and is located in Fairfax County just over the Arlington county boundary and just east of the driveway to Upton Hill Regional Park, near the batting cage.
On May 10, Col. Emory Upton led a storming party of twelve picked regiments selected from the VI Corps; they carried the Confederate works in the "Mule Shoe" after a hand-to-hand fight in which bayonet wounds were freely given and received. On May 12, the entire corps fought at the "Bloody Angle", where the fighting was among the closest and ...
Upton Hill Regional Park [1] features picnic areas, a water park, batting cages, and a miniature golf course. The miniature golf course includes what was once the world's longest miniature golf hole, at 140 feet (43 m). The course was designed by minigolf designer Jim Bryant. [2]
Upton Birnie Jr. was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on 7 July 1877, a son of clothing store manager Upton Birnie and Susan (Galt) Birnie. [1] [2] His brother Samuel Galt Birnie (1875–1938) was a prominent attorney in Philadelphia. [2] [3] His uncle Rogers Birnie (1851–1939) was a career U.S. Army officer who retired as a colonel. [2] [4]
Incorporated as the Borough of West Greenville in 1836, [5] it changed its name to the Borough of Greenville in 1865 [6] and began to operate under a home rule charter on January 1, 2020, under the name of the "Town of Greenville." [7] The origin of the name is speculated to have come from East Greenville, Pennsylvania.
The 23rd Ohio arrived in Washington, and camped in Northern Virginia, across the Potomac at Upton Hill. [46] The regiment was brigaded along with other troops from the Kanawha in the 1st Brigade of the of Kanawha Division. Col. Scammon being the senior colonel took command of the 1st Brigade and the 39-year-old Hayes assumed command of the ...
The 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment (also known as the 163rd Pennsylvania Volunteers) was a cavalry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was present for 50 battles, beginning with the Battle of Hanover in Pennsylvania on June 30, 1863, and ending with a skirmish at Rude's Hill in Virginia during March 1865.