Intensity of Battle

Intensity of Battle (HMT2P)

Location: Mechanicsville, VA 23111 Hanover County
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Country: United States of America
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N 37° 34.382', W 77° 17.755'

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"By the time we had gotten across, the front line, broken by our fire, frightened ? which sounded like forty thousand wild cats, had reached their second line, ? confusion, and they, panicstricken, left their works and croded to the top of the hill, thus preventing their artillery from firing into us?." Edmund D. Patterson, 9th Alabama Infantry

New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield defended this sector of Porter's line. During the early afternoon the greatest threat to these men was the falling limbs severed by the hundreds of artillery shells that screeched overhead.

Late in the evening Confederate infantry appeared at the opposite crest of the hill. Butterfield's men met them with a blaze of musketry fire that staggered the front ranks and wounded Brig. Gen. George E. Pickett. The Southern pause was only momentary. Soon the advancing Confederates nearly wrapped around Butterfield's position. His thinking now changed from defense to survival. For his determined efforts to rally the retreating Union soldiers, General Butterfield was awarded the Medal of Honor. In a few days he would arrange the haunting music of "Taps."
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HM NumberHMT2P
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Year Placed2011
Placed ByRichmond National Battlefield Park
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Date Added Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 at 3:01am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 297247 N 4160921
Decimal Degrees37.57303333, -77.29591667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 37° 34.382', W 77° 17.755'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds37° 34' 22.92" N, 77° 17' 45.30" W
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Area Code(s)804
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 6339 Watt House Rd, Mechanicsville VA 23111, US
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