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|   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 |
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| 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 |
 view gallerySW22.7 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 gallerySW24.8 km | Prelude to the Crater - Petersburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites The predawn darkness of July 30, 1864, shrouded intense Union preparations on this ridge. Thousands of troops filed quietly into the ravine and trenches in front. More than 160 cannon crowded the earthworks to your right and left. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/09/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallerySW24.8 km | A Fatal Error - Petersburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites For weeks the black troops had rehearsed their role as spearhead of the assault. But late on July 29, fearing public outcry should the African-American troops suffer heavy casualties, Meade ordered Burnside to pick another, all-white division. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/09/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryNW32.7 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 gallerySW32.8 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 gallerySW33.3 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 gallerySW33.3 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 gallerySW33.3 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 gallerySW33.3 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 gallerySW33.3 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 gallerySW33.3 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 gallerySW33.3 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 gallerySW33.3 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 gallerySW33.3 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 gallerySW33.3 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 |
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