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Both the Confederacy and the Union recognized the strategic importance of the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal?and both sides fought for control.
The Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal (A&C) provided the Confederacy the means to avoid the coastal blockad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116L_civil-war-anchor_Chesapeake-VA.html
This 7,900-pound anchor was manufactured in 1861 by the Naval Yard Foundry in Washington, D.C., and most likely belonged to the USS Hartford, a Union warship immortalized at the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, when Admiral David Glasgow Fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116K_father-son-canal-builders_Chesapeake-VA.html
Marshall Parks, Sr.1786-1840
The Dismal Swamp Canal, located about six miles west of here, officially opened in 1805. Dug completely by hand, its shallow depth limited navigation to flat boats and lighters manually poled or towed from a path al…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116J_planning-a-canal_Chesapeake-VA.html
The Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal did not exist at the time of the Battle of Great Bridge?
...but plans for a canal at Great Bridge were in place more than three years before the battle. In 1772, the need for trade and commerce with North Caroli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116I_the-marshall-family_Chesapeake-VA.html
The Thomas Marshall family lived in the backwoods of the Virginia frontier.
Thomas Marshall of Fauquier County served as a vestryman, High Sheriff, and member of the House of Burgesses. He was a close boyhood friend of George Washington, who he…
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Fauquier County, VirginiaOfficers of the Culpeper Minute BattalionAt the Battle of Great Bridge
Major Thomas Marshall (1730-1802)Member, 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Virginia ConventionsColonel, 3rd Virginia RegimentColonel, Virginia Sate Artillery Regi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116G_billy-flora_Chesapeake-VA.html
His courage "amid a shower of bullets" helped achieve victory at the Battle of Great Bridge.
Private William (Billy) Flora was a free black from the Portsmouth area and a member of the Norfolk County Militia who served as a sentry for Colonel W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116F_the-day-is-our-own_Chesapeake-VA.html
I then saw the horrors of war in perfection, worse than can be imagined; 10 and 12 bullets thro' many; limbs broke in 2 or 3 places?Good God, what a sight! Captain Richard Kidder Meade, Southampton District, 2nd Virginia Regiment
British Captai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116E_causeway-construction_Chesapeake-VA.html
Some areas of the marsh were high enough to allow crossing on a corduroy road made of logs. Lower areas of the marsh required a stronger infrastructure, like the one seen here. This exhibit illustrates how five or six timbers, each ranging from 15…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116D_site-of-the-original-causeway_Chesapeake-VA.html
The Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal changed the landscape of this area.
Constructed between 1855 and 1859, the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal cut through the causeway and marsh lying between the south island and the village of Great Bridge. The orig…