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Chapter 1American Revolution 15 -- Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Farmington, Pennsylvania 18 -- Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts 21 -- Moores Creek National Battlefield, Currie, North Carolina 24 -- Fort Stanwix National Monument, Rome, New York 27 -- Saratoga National Historical Park, Stillwater, New York 28 -- Valley Forge National Historical Park, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania 33 -- Kings Mountain National Military Park, Blacksburg, South Carolina 34 -- Cowpens National Battlefield, Chesnee, South Carolina 37 -- Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, North Carolina 38 -- Yorktown National Historical Park, Yorktown, Virginia 41 -- Chapter 2 War of 1812 45 -- Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, Put-in-Bay, Ohio 48 -- Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Baltimore, Maryland 51 -- USS Constitution, Boston National Historical Park, Boston, Massachusetts 54 -- Chapter 3 Expansion 57 -- Forts: Sentinels of the Frontier 61 -- Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site, Brownsville, Texas 62 -- Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, Cheyenne, Oklahoma 65 -- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Montana 66 -- Big Hole National Battlefield, Wisdom, Montana 71 -- Chapter 4 Civil War 73 -- Fort Sumter National Monument, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina 78 -- Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, Virginia 83 -- Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, Republic, Missouri 86 -- Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Dover, Tennessee 89 -- Pea Ridge National Military Park, Pea Ridge, Arkansas 90 -- Shiloh National Military Park, Shiloh, Tennessee 93 -- Fort Pulaski National Monument, Savannah, Georgia 96 -- Richmond National Battlefield Park, Richmond, Virginia 99 -- Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland 102 -- Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia 109 -- Stones River National Battlefield, Murfreesboro, Tennessee 114 -- Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, Mississippi 119 -- Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 122 -- Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 131 -- Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Kennesaw, Georgia 135 -- Monocacy National Battlefield, Frederick, Maryland 138 -- Petersburg National Battlefield, Petersburg, Virginia 141 -- Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Appomattox, Virginia 144 -- Chapter 5 Memorials to Courage 147 -- USS Arizona Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii 150 -- War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Piti, Guam 155 -- Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC 158 -- Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC 161 -- World Trade Center Memorial, New York, New York 162.