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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 galleryNW0.2 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 galleryW2.9 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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| 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 gallerySW3.1 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 |
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| 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 galleryE6.1 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 |
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| Final Stand - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Civil War artillery was a splendid defensive weapon, particularly when the battlefield landscape offered the gunners open fields of fire. At Gaines’ Mill the woods plagued the Union artillery. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryE6.3 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 |
 view galleryE6.3 km | 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 galleryE6.3 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 galleryE6.3 km | Lee’s First Victory: At a Huge Cost - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Both sides combined lost 15,000 casualties, the greatest loss in any battle of the entire Peninsula Campaign, and second only to Shiloh at that stage of the war. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryE6.4 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 galleryE6.4 km | Gaines' Mill 1862 Seven Days' Battles - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the battlefield landscapes. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryE6.4 km | The Watt House Gaines' Mill Battlefield - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Entrenched in three lines on this plateau, the right wing of McClellan's army, withdrawn from Beaver Dam Creek posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryE6.4 km | Springfield Plantation - Mechanicsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites In 1862 this farmhouse was home to the widow Sarah Watt, her granddaughter, Mary Jane Haw, and a maid. It was a typical Hanover County plantation of several hundred acres with some 28 slaves. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryE6.6 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 galleryE7.1 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 gallerySE8.7 km | Battlefield of Seven Pines - Sandston, VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Placed by the Battlefield Markers Association, marker #37 describes the Battle of Seven Pines as Confederates led by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston moved east to meet Gen. George B. McClellan's army. posted by:  archway location: Virginia date approved: 09/02/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW8.7 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 gallerySW8.9 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 |
 view gallerySE9 km | Grapevine Bridge - Highland Springs VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Here stood Grapevine Bridge across which, on the night of June 27, 1862, part of McClellan's Army moved in changing base. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/15/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view gallerySE9.2 km | The Trent House-McClellan’s Headquarters - Sandston VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Between June 12 and June 28, 1862, Union Gen. George B. McClellan maintained his headquarters here at Trent House. Known as “Reynoldsville,” the house dates from about 1825. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/26/2023 last visited: 06/26/2023 |
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