Uprooted by War - Petersburg VA
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Don.Morfe
N 37° 14.667 W 077° 21.423
18S E 290936 N 4124593
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.
Waymark Code: WM133V7
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/09/2020
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Uprooted by War-Petersburg National Battlefield-- “Every tree, stump, and fence has disappeared… What was once verdant is now a wasteland of dust and dirt.”
- John Haley, 17th Maine Infantry January 26, 1865
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.
War came to the Jordan farm in late 1862, when Confederate engineer Charles Dimmock laid out ten miles of defenses to protect Petersburg. Battery 5 of the “Dimmock Line” stood only yards from theJordan House.
When Union and Confederate armies swarmed over this area in 1864, dozens of farmers like Jordan were uprooted, their homes damaged or destroyed, their woodlots cut, and their fields ravaged. The landscape sill bears the scars.
LOCATION: Marker can be reached from Siege Road, on the right when traveling south. Marker is in Petersburg National Battlefield on the Battery 5 Trail. The trailhead is located at the Visitor Center.
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