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Fort Necessity National Battlefield park staff aimed to find out if Appalachian cottontail inhabited the park, so they collaborated with the Inventory and Monitoring Division to survey for their scat.
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Fort Laramie once stood sentinel over the Oregon, California, and Mormon emigration trails; was a stop on the Pony Express route; and served as a staging ground for both peaceful and hostile dealings with Plains Indians. Its association with important figures, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, and historic events makes Fort Laramie an icon of the American West.
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Following a day's journey from Fort Laramie, emigrants spent the night at Register Cliff , which rises one hundred feet above the North Platte River valley. The soft, chalky limestone rock made it easy for emigrants to inscribe their names into the cliff before continuing on their journey. The earliest signatures date to the late 1820s when trappers and fur traders passed through the area.
Antietam National Battlefield
Dunker Church
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Dunker Church, a meeting house for the German Baptist Brethren who lived in the Sharpsburg area, was the focal point of repeated clashes during the Battle of Antietam as both the Union and Confederate armies sought to occupy and hold the high ground around it.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
The Port Royal Experiment
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A few weeks after the Battle of Port Royal, US soldiers and sailors came ashore around Beaufort and found thousands of now formerly enslaved people in control of the region. The military had no real plan yet for what to do with these people or even their legal status.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Series: The Port Royal Experiment
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In the fall of 1861 after the Battle of Port Royal, the US military came ashore around Beaufort and found thousands of now formerly enslaved people in control of the region. The military had no real plan yet for what to do with these people or even their legal status. Newly freed Black South Carolinians were active participants. They demanded access to programs to support labor reforms, land redistribution, quality education, and military service.
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Banastre Tarleton, a British army officer, famously commanded the British Legion, a provincial regiment composed of loyalist infantry and dragoons, in the southern theater under Lord Cornwallis during the Revolution. Feared for his ruthlessness by the patriots, his early successes in the field earned him notoriety. Defeated at the Battle of Cowpens by Brig. Gen. Daniel Morgan, Tarleton's favor with Cornwallis declined. Tarleton was present at the surrender at Yorktown.
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis and 2nd Earl Cornwallis, served as a British general during the American Revolution and notably surrendered his army to General Washington's Continental army and the allied French forces at Yorktown, Virginia in October 1781. This surrender effectively ended hostilities between British and American forces and led to peace negotiations, ending the war and recognizing American independence. Cornwallis later governed in India.
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Best known today for his military campaigns against the Indians before and after the Civil War, George Crook rose from the command of the 36th Ohio Infantry to the command of a cavalry division which fought in Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. During the war he became friends with future president Rutherford B. Hayes.
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Piti Guns Unit
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During the last months of the Imperial Japanese occupation of Guam, Japanese defenders heavily fortified the island in preparation for the coming battle. Machine guns, artillery and mortar emplacements, and coastal defense guns were installed on the high ground near the coast. Today, most of those fortifications are either gone, but in the hills overlooking the village of Piti, three Vickers-type Model 3 140mm coastal defense guns still rest silently in a mahogany forest.
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Piti
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Above the village of Piti, sit three large Japanese Vickers-type Model 3 140mm coastal defense guns, the remains of hastily constructed fortifications build on the eve of the American invasion of Guam. As the Americans conquered more and more territory in the Pacific, the Japanese forced the CHamoru to build fortifications and install artillery and costal defense guns on Guam under brutal conditions.
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Managing a Right-of-Way Helped This Park Restore Its Grasslands
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An unexpected and often forgotten place becomes a vital part of one park’s bid to restore a critically imperiled landscape
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Definitions underpin everything people do, and agreeing on them is essential for joint action. But how we define our nation’s forests is especially important because of their global and cultural significance.
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In a world where excess light is wiping out our views of the stars at a startling pace, parks can protect natural darkness. But do nighttime visitors support the changes parks must make to bring back dark night skies? We didn’t know until we asked them.
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Information Panel: The Tide Crests
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Robert Milroy's Union brigade occupied the washed-out bed of Sudley Road before you. Behind them, artillery occupied the crest of Henry Hill, in position to fire safely over the infantry.
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Information Panel: Retreat From Chinn Ridge
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Colonel Oliver O. Howard's brigade brought up the rear of the Federal flanking column. After crossing Bull Run, the New Englanders hastened toward the sounds of battle. In the mid-afternoon heat, dozens of men straggled on the march or collapsed by the roadside. By the time they reached the front, Union hopes for victory were fading.
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Information Panel: Aftermath
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Following the Union retreat, Lee remained determined to crush Pope. Again, he divided his army and sent Stonewall Jackson's troops on an encircling march to cut off the enemy's escape route to Washington.
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Matthew Farm Site
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Manassas National Battlefield Park
Imboden's Confederate Artillery
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Manassas National Battlefield Park
Captain James Ricketts' Artillery Position
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Union Captain James Ricketts' Battery I, 1st US Artillery held this position on the afternoon of 21 July 1861. Fighting raged along this line throughout the afternoon, with the guns changing hands three times. During the fighting, James Ricketts was severely wounded.