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|   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 galleryS40.6 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 galleryS40.6 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 galleryS40.6 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 galleryS40.6 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 |
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| Dahlgren's Raid - Goochland, VA in U.S. Civil War Sites A Civil War site along Route 6, east of Richmond. posted by:  bluesnote location: Virginia date approved: 10/01/2021 last visited: never |
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| 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 gallerySW46 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 gallerySW50.4 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 gallerySW50.5 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 gallerySW50.5 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 gallerySW50.5 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 |
 view gallerySW50.5 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 |
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| Williamsburg Courthouse - Williamsburg, VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Williamsburg Courthouse was used in the Civil War as a confederate field hospital during the Battle of Williamsburg. posted by: bluesnote location: Virginia date approved: 03/04/2016 last visited: 05/18/2019 |
 view galleryS65.3 km | 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 |
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| Guinea Station-Grant Maneuvers South - Guinea VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Hancock reached Guinea Station about dawn, May 21. Pickets of the 9th Virginia Cavalry fired at the Union column, then disappeared to spread the alarm. Hancock continued south. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/22/2023 last visited: 06/22/2023 |
 view galleryN70.3 km | Jackson Shrine - Guinea Station VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson died of pneumonia at Fairfield in May 1863 after being wounded at Chancellorsville, VA. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 05/30/2012 last visited: 08/21/2023 |
 view galleryN70.3 km | War Comes to Fairfield - Woodford VA in U.S. Civil War Sites War brought profound changes to the Chandler family, Fairfield, and the slaves who toiled on the plantation. Three of Thomas Chandler’s sons enlisted in the Confederate army. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 11/08/2020 last visited: 07/03/2022 |
 view galleryN70.3 km | A Staggering Blow - Woodford VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Jackson's death fell heaviest on Gen. Robert E. Lee. He had come to rely on Jackson to carry out his plans, and Jackson had seldom failed him. "Such an executive officer the sun never shone on," Lee once said of his subordinate. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 11/08/2020 last visited: 07/03/2022 |
 view gallerySE74 km | Fort Huger-Defending the James River - Smithfield VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Slaves and free blacks constructed the fort under direction of the Confederate Engineer Bureau, and detachments of Lt. Col. Fletcher Archer’s 5th Virginia infantry Battalion were posted here. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/27/2023 last visited: 06/27/2023 |
 view gallerySE74.7 km | Endview-Home of the Warwick Beauregards - Newport News VA in U.S. Civil War Sites When the Civil War erupted Endview was owned by Dr. Humphrey Harwood Curtis. Dr. Curtis organized local volunteers into the Warwick Beauregards (Co. H, 32rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry) at Endview and was elected the unit’s captain. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/28/2023 last visited: 06/28/2023 |
 view gallerySE74.7 km | Lebanon Church In the Line of March - Newport News VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Soon after Confederate Col. John Bankhead Magruder began organizing the Peninsula’s defenses at Yorktown on May 21, 1861, elements of the 3rd Virginia Cavalry established a courier station here. Countless Confederate soldiers marched by here. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/28/2023 last visited: 06/28/2023 |
 view gallerySE76.1 km | Skiffes Creek-The Defense of Mulberry Island - Newport News VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The redoubt before you is one of five earthworks built by the Confederates to help defend the Mulberry Island/James River flank of Maj. Gen. John Bankhead Magruder’s 2nd Peninsula Defensive Line. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/27/2023 last visited: 06/27/2023 |
 view gallerySE77.6 km | Battle of Lee’s Mill-Flames Appeared on all Sides - Newport News VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Brig. Gen. William F. “Baldy” Smith, found its progress slowed first by torrents of rain that made the roads almost impassable and then by Brig. Gen. Lafayette McLaws’ 1,800 Confederate troops with three guns at Lee’s Mill. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/26/2023 last visited: 06/26/2023 |
 view gallerySE77.7 km | Fortification Design-1862 Peninsula Campaign - Newport News VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Confederate field fortifications constructed on the Virginia Peninsula were influenced by seventeenth-century French military engineer Marshal Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban and nineteenth-century American engineering professor Dennis Hart Mahan. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/27/2023 last visited: 06/27/2023 |
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