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|   The Gathering Storm - Henrico VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites Atop this knoll Confederate General D. H. Hill had an unobstructed view to the crest of Malvern Hill. In the distance stood the West farm house and fields where Union batteries waited to dispute any Southern advance. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/18/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryW51 km | Southern Valor vs. Union Firepower - Henrico VA in U.S. Civil War Sites As dusk approached on July 1, massed Confederate infantry made one last grand advance. Victory or defeat in the last battle of the Seven Days awaited its outcome. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/17/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryW51 km | Malvern Hill - Glendale VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Malvern Hill is the story of Confederate infantry against massed Federal artillery – Southern valor against Union firepower. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/17/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryW51 km | Bermuda Hundred Landing-Butler’s Campaign Begins - Chester VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Union Gen. Benjamin Butler’s 30,000-man Army of the James landed here without opposition on May 5, 1864. Despite his surprise arrival, Butler proved unable to take advantage of the unprepared Confederate defenders below Richmond. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/20/2023 last visited: 06/20/2023 |
 view galleryW51.2 km | Malvern Hill-1862 Seven Days' Battles - Henrico VA in U.S. Civil War Sites No military campaign had more influence on the course of the Civil War than these Seven Days’ battles. George B. McClellan’s army of more than 100,000 Union soldiers landed at Fort Monroe in spring of 1862, and fought its way up the peninsula. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/17/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryW51.2 km | A Splendid Field of Battle - Glendale VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Union commanders chose an ideal location to fight their last battle of the Seven Days. As many as 40 cannon covered the one-half-mile front, stretching from the slopes of Crew’s Run on your left to a similar drop to Western Run on your right. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/17/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryW51.2 km | Grant’s Cabin at City Point – Hopewell, VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant lived in this cabin during the siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865. He was visited here by President Lincoln and other government officials. posted by:  archway location: Virginia date approved: 12/19/2009 last visited: 01/17/2019 |
 view galleryW51.3 km | U.S. Government Bakery - Hopewell VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The bakery complex consisted of five frame structures which included an office, a yeast house, two large bakeries and a storehouse. Numerous civilian bakers kept the ovens going day and night producing more than 100,000 rations of bread daily. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/25/2023 last visited: 06/25/2023 |
 view galleryW51.3 km | City Point Defenses-Securing the Union Position - Hopewell VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The fort behind you is all that remains of the inner defense line built by the Union army in 1864 to protect its base headquarters at City point. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/25/2023 last visited: 06/25/2023 |
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| Frazier's Farm or Glendale Battlefield - Glendale VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Here, on the Charles City Road, the Confederate forces of Major General Benjamin Huger in their attempt to intercept the Federal withdrawal to the James opened with artillery the Battle of Frazier's Farm, June 30, 1862. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/18/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryW51.7 km | Frazier's Farm or Glendale Battlefield - Glendale VA in U.S. Civil War Sites North and South of this point lay the line of battle in which the Confederate commands of James Longstreet and A.P. Hill engaged indecisively the Federal forces in the Fourth Battle of the Seven Days’ Campaign. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/18/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW57.8 km | Battle of Savage’s Station-A Fighting Withdrawal - in U.S. Civil War Sites In the wake of the retreating army, Savage’s Station, located one half mile in front of you along the Richmond and York River Railroad, was ordered abandoned. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/26/2023 last visited: 06/26/2023 |
 view galleryNW57.8 km | Savage Station - Sandston, VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Placed by the Battlefield Markers Association, marker #13 describes the Battle of Savage's Station, one of the Seven Days Battles in 1862. posted by: archway location: Virginia date approved: 09/07/2009 last visited: 08/04/2023 |
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| Fort Norfolk - Norfolk, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites Historic Fort located within the Corp of Engineers Compound. posted by: flyingmoose location: Virginia date approved: 06/25/2023 last visited: never |
 view galleryW58.1 km | Infantry Earthworks - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Re-created here are samples of some of the infantry earthworks that ringed Petersburg – works that one man said made the landscape resemble “an immense prairie dog village.” posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/09/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryW58.1 km | Monotonous Toil - Petersburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites This quiet wood was once a busy encampment. Here, during the winter of 1864-65, Union soldiers fought not Confederates, but boredom and toil. They drilled, they primped their huts, they read mail and newspapers, they played, and they waited. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/09/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryW58.1 km | “A Splendid Charge” - Petersburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites After the capture of Battery 5, some of the 3,500 black troops swept southward, routing Confederates before them. At dusk, they charged on Battery 9 and swarmed over the works. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/09/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryW58.1 km | The Siege of Petersburg - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites If Petersburg fell, the Confederate capital at Richmond would fall too. Grant knew it; Lee knew it. And for nine months in 1864 and 1865 Union and Confederate armies waged a brutal campaign here that left the Confederacy on the verge of total defeat. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/09/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryW58.3 km | Battery 5 Trail - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites On the ground before you the first major attacks against Petersburg occurred. This bloodletting marked the beginning of nine months of siege. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/09/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryW58.3 km | Opportunity Lost - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites At 7 p.m. on June 15, 1864, the boom of Union cannons to the east foreshadowed a Union attack on the Dimmock Line. Minutes later, soldiers of the Union Eighteenth Corps broke through the undermanned Confederate line. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/09/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryW58.3 km | Artillery at Petersburg - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites In front of you are just some of the types of cannon used in the Civil War. Some are bronze, some iron. Some are rifled - they fired conical shells. Others are smoothbore - they fired the traditional cannonball. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/09/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryW58.3 km | Uprooted by War - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The gentle depression in front of you is the only vestige of the Josiah Jordan House. The house was dismantled by Union troops during the Siege of Petersburg. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/09/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryW58.3 km | Battery 5 of the Dimmock Line - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites In 1862 – two years before the first Federals appeared at the city’s gates – Confederate Captain Charles Dimmock oversaw the construction of a ten-mile line of defensive works ringing Petersburg. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/09/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryNW59.2 km | The Trent House-McClellan’s Headquarters - Sandston VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Between June 12 and June 28, 1862, Union Gen. George B. McClellan maintained his headquarters here at Trent House. Known as “Reynoldsville,” the house dates from about 1825. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/26/2023 last visited: 06/26/2023 |
 view galleryNW59.4 km | Grapevine Bridge - Highland Springs VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Here stood Grapevine Bridge across which, on the night of June 27, 1862, part of McClellan's Army moved in changing base. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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