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|   Battle of Gaines' Mill - Mechanicsville VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites In these fields and woods unfolded the largest and bloodiest battle of the Seven Days—Gaines’ Mill. On the morning of June 27, 1862, Union General Fitz John Porter deployed his entire Fifth Corps, over 27,000 in total. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryN18.7 km | New Cold Harbor Where Two Battlefields Meet - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Around this crossroads is bloody ground. To the right is the field of Gaines' Mill or First Cold Harbor, fought June 27, 1862, with 14,800 casualties. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryN18.8 km | Cold Harbor 1864 Overland Campaign - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites 1864 Overland Campaign-The fourth spring of the war began when Union armies launched a series of offensives across unconquered portions of the South. The action in Virginia included three separate campaigns. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryN19.2 km | Garthright House - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Garthright House stood in the path of charging troops at two battles: Gaines’ Mill in 1862 and Cold Harbor in 1864. The house belonged to Miles Garthright, a Confederate soldier. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryN19.3 km | A Bloody Baptism of Fire - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The first heavy fighting at Cold Harbor erupted here, on the afternoon of June 1, 1864, when Grant determined to test the strength of the newly-built Confederate line. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/14/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryN19.5 km | Confederate Fortifications - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The diary of Edward R. Crockett, 4th Texas Infantry, illustrates the daily pressure of life in these trenches: June 4th
“We work hard last night & dawn on the 4th have a heavy work completed. We have quit sleeping almost entirely.” posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryN19.6 km | Union Position Cold Harbor - 1864 - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The night before, Union soldiers write their names on scraps of paper fastened to their clothing, hoping to be identified after the battle. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryN19.6 km | Grant's Grand Assault - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Cold Harbor is best known today for high losses among the attacking Union formations on June 3. The Sixth Corps made a small advance here, but most of the famous carnage occurred elsewhere. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/14/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| Kittiewan Plantation - Charles City VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Land referred to as Kenwon, mentioned in a 1618 grant to Gov. George Yeardley. Patented in 1632 by Lennon Pierce. Occupied by Union Army in June 1864. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/06/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
 view gallerySW21.6 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 gallerySW21.6 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 gallerySW21.7 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 gallerySW21.7 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 gallerySW21.7 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 galleryNW22 km | Site of Ellerson’s Mill - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Grist mills were essential elements of the 19th-century farming community, and their remains can be found throughout the Seven Days Battlefields. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW22 km | Holding the High Ground - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The charging Confederates faced more obstacles than they could overcome: open fields, steep slopes, a broad and swampy creek, Union infantry using a millrace for protection, and powerfully positioned Union artillery crowning the ridge. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/14/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW22 km | Lee’s First Strike - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Confederate plan did not call for an attack against the Union position along Beaver Dam Creek. Instead, a series of manuevers would make the Union defenses here untenable. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/14/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW22.2 km | Beaver Dam Creek - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Confederate troops pursuing Federals retreating eastward from Mechanicsville here came under heavy fire from across Beaver Dam Creek. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW22.4 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 galleryNW22.4 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 galleryNW22.4 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 |
 view gallerySW22.7 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 gallerySW22.7 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 |
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