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|   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 |
 view galleryNW38.9 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 galleryNW38.9 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 galleryNW38.9 km | 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 |
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| 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 gallerySW39.9 km | The Confederate Fortifications-Pamplin Historical Park - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The earthen wall in front of you is a part of the main Confederate defense line begun in 1864 and defended until April 2, 1865. You are standing behind the line facing southeast towards the Union positions about one mile away. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view gallerySW39.9 km | Confederate Winter Quarters-Pamplin Historical Park - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Brigadier General Samuel McGowan’s South Carolina Brigade spent the winter of 1864-1865 very close to the fortifications they defended. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view gallerySW39.9 km | “The Strongest Line of Works Ever Constructed” - Pamplin Historical Park VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The main line of entrenchments behind you was only one part of the entire defensive network established here by the Confederates. Southern soldiers removed all the trees in front of their works to create a clear field of fire. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view gallerySW39.9 km | McGowan’s South Carolina Brigade-Pamplin Historical Park - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Brigadier General Samuel McGowan, a 43-year-old lawyer and politician from Abbeville, South Carolina, commanded the troops responsible for maintaining these fortifications from October 1864 through March 1865. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view gallerySW39.9 km | The Breakthrough Trail Pamplin Historical Park - Petersburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites A walk along the Breakthrough Trail is a journey into history! On April 2, 1865, thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers clashed here to determine the fate of Petersburg and Richmond. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/04/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view gallerySW40.1 km | 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 gallerySW40.1 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 gallerySW40.1 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 gallerySW40.1 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 gallerySW40.1 km | The Plantaton 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 gallerySW40.1 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 gallerySW40.1 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 gallerySW40.2 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 |
 view gallerySW47.2 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 gallerySW47.2 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 |
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| Ten Pound Parrott Rifle and Limber - Newport News VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Civil War Parrott Rifle was a muzzle loaded rifled cannon capable of firing a 10 pound projectile about 3000 yards at 12º elevation. Invented by Robert P. Parrott, the cast iron Parrott Rifle gave greater accuracy. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/06/2020 last visited: 02/16/2022 |
 view galleryE50.5 km | Third Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry April 16, 1862 - Newport News VA in U.S. Civil War Sites 3rd Regiment
Vermont Volunteer Infantry
Col. Breed N. Hyde Commanding posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/06/2020 last visited: 02/16/2022 |
 view galleryE50.5 km | Battle of Lee’s Mill (Dam Number 1) April 16, 1862 - Newport News VA in U.S. Civil War Sites A stalwart defense of the Warwick River by units of the 15th North Carolina, 7th Georgia and 2nd Louisiana Infantry, C.S.A., commanded by General J.B. Magruder is commemorated here. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/06/2020 last visited: 02/16/2022 |
 view galleryE51.2 km | Swan Tavern - Yorktown, VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Here is where munition was stored by Union forces. posted by: bluesnote location: Virginia date approved: 12/27/2014 last visited: 12/27/2014 |
 view galleryE51.5 km | Classic Camp Life The Union Army Occupies Gloucester Point - Gloucester Point VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Union army fought its way up the York River, only to lose the hard fought Seven Days Battles around Richmond in June and July of 1862. The Union army left behind a large force that strengthened the defenses around Yorktown. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 11/01/2020 last visited: 09/24/2021 |
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