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|   Field Fortifications-Pamplin Historical Park - Petersburg VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites Pamplin Historical Park has created these replica earthworks to suggest how this area might have looked during the winter of 1864-65. Both armies at Petersburg constructed long lines of field fortifications. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryW69.5 km | Obstructions-Pamplin Historical Park - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Obstructions, like the reproductions displayed here, played an important role in Civil War field fortifications. These obstacles broke the forward momentum of assaulting troops and maximized and attacker’s exposure to the defenders’ fire. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryW69.5 km | The Military Landscape-Pamplin Historical Park - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Did you know the end of the American Civil War started here?
On the morning of April 2, 1865 you would have been standing near the center of the battle that decided the nine-month campaign for Petersburg and Richmond. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryW69.5 km | Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier-Lee's Retreat - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Here, the Union’s Sixth Army Corps broke through the Confederate line defending Petersburg, causing a series of actions which eventually led to the evacuation of the city by Lee’s army that evening. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryW69.7 km | Tudor Hall Field Quarter-Tudor Hall Plantation - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The environment in front of you recreates elements of a plantation Field Quarter of the 1800s. The slaves who provided agricultural labor on farms like Tudor Hall lived in areas like this in the years before the Civil War. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryW69.7 km | Tobacco Barn-Tudor Hall Plantation - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Nineteenth-century farmers cut tobacco plants and placed them on sticks to be cured in tobacco barns like this one. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryW69.7 km | The Big House-Tudor Hall Plantation - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites his landscape re-creates elements of a typical Southside Virginia plantation during the mid-nineteenth century. Tudor Hall, an original nineteenth-century building, was at the center of a farm that supported the owner, his family, and their slaves. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryW69.7 km | The Plantation Landscape-Pamplin Historical Park - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Life was a lot simpler back then…or was it? You are standing near the center of a once successful and productive mid-19th century farm. To your right is the main house, Tudor Hall, built in two stages before the Civil War. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view galleryW69.7 km | Tudor Hall-Tudor Hall Plantation - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites William Boisseau, a tobacco farmer, constructed Tudor Hall around 1812. Originally two rooms wide and one room deep, this style of house was popular in Dinwiddie County during the late 1700s and early 1800s. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
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| Seven Days' Battles Begin - Richmond VA in U.S. Civil War Sites By the final week of June 1862, the Union army lay sprawled east of Richmond, on both sides of the flooded Chickahominy River. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW70.2 km | Chickahominy Bluff 1862 Seven Days' Battles - Richmond VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Visiting Richmond National Battlefield Park-The concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/14/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW70.2 km | Defending Richmond - Richmond VA in U.S. Civil War Sites From the war's beginning, Confederate authorities struggled with the question of how to defend Richmond. It lay vulnerable to approaches from every direction. Engineers eventually devised an integrated series of earthen fortifications. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/14/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW70.3 km | Libby Prison-“Hope was all that sustained many.” - Richmond VA in U.S. Civil War Sites In the war nearly all Union prisoners in Virginia came though Libby before being distributed to other facilities such as Belle Isle here in Richmond, or Andersonville in Georgia. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/22/2023 last visited: 06/22/2023 |
 view galleryNW71.1 km | President’s Mansion-White House of the Confederacy - Richmond VA in U.S. Civil War Sites This house was the executive mansion of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his family from August 1861 until April 2, 1865. Davis was the Confederacy’s only president. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/22/2023 last visited: 06/22/2023 |
 view galleryNW71.1 km | First Baptist Church - Richmond, VA in U.S. Civil War Sites A former historic church now is part of the Virginia Commonwealth University. posted by:  bluesnote location: Virginia date approved: 03/24/2016 last visited: 03/24/2016 |
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| Unknown and Known Afro-Union Civil War Soldiers Memorial in U.S. Civil War Sites Small cemetary in the Bells Mill section of Chesapeake, VA. posted by: Left Coast Labs location: Virginia date approved: 11/10/2010 last visited: 02/22/2023 |
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| Sappony Church-Hampton’s Cavalry: "Too strong to be overcome" - Stony Creek VA in U.S. Civil War Sites About noon, Wilson attempted to force his way through to Ream’s station just as Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton’s cavalry appeared, and the two forces collided. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/28/2023 last visited: 06/28/2023 |
 view galleryW76.4 km | The Battle of White Oak Road Four Years of War, Ten Months of Siege - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Though his lines grew thinner every day from illness, battle casualties, and desertion, Lee could not abandon Petersburg. Petersburg was the gateway to Richmond, and the capital of the Confederacy. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 11/02/2020 last visited: 09/30/2021 |
 view galleryW76.4 km | The Battle of White Oak Road The Walking Trail - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Welcome to the Civil War Preservation Trust’s White Oak Road Battlefield! The battlefield walking trail is a two-thirds-of-a-mile path that takes you past six wayside signs interpreting the 1865 battle, the remains of the Confederate earthworks. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 11/02/2020 last visited: 09/30/2021 |
 view galleryNW79.3 km | Yellow Tavern-Stuart’s Last Battle - Glen Allen VA in U.S. Civil War Sites While the Richmond local defense troops gathered to guard the capital, Sheridan attacked Stuart on this high ground. The Confederate line shattered. Stuart fell fatally wounded here while rallying his men. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/26/2023 last visited: 06/26/2023 |
 view galleryW82.6 km | The Union Cavalry Attacks - Dinwiddie VA in U.S. Civil War Sites On March 31, 1865, Union cavalry under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan retreated down this road to Dinwiddie Court House, driven by Pickett’s Confederates. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/07/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryW83 km | The Battle of Five Forks - Dinwiddie VA in U.S. Civil War Sites On April 1, 1865, at this obscure county crossroads, that Confederate line finally stretched to its breaking point. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/07/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryW83 km | Battle of Five Forks - Dinwiddie VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Here at Five Forks on April 1, 1865 10,000 Confederates, commanded by General Pickett, were overwhelmed by about 50,000 Federal troops, led by General Sheridan. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/07/2020 last visited: 01/15/2022 |
 view galleryW83 km | Digging In-Five Forks - Dinwiddie VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Just before noon on April 1, 1865, 10,000 Confederates under Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett arrived here at Five Forks. They immediately started digging and by mid-afternoon had constructed a rough earthwork that extended along the White Oak Road. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/07/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryW83 km | Death of Pegram-Five Forks Unit - Dinwiddie VA in U.S. Civil War Sites After fierce fighting, the Confederate positions around the intersection collapsed. In the melee fell Colonel Pegram, mortally wounded in the side. Just 23 years old, Pegram had survived all of the Army of Northern Virginia’s major battles posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/07/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
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