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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9I6_lafayette-at-petersburg_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
From this hill Lafayette, on May 10, 1781, shelled the British in Petersburg.
(On stone under the marker):Headquarters ofGeneral Lafayette1781Frances Bland RandolphChapterD.A.R.1903.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9I5_dunlops-station_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
At the nearby junction of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad and the Confederate military spur line to Ettrick, stood Dunlop's Station, a Confederate telegraph post and supply depot. During the siege of Petersburg, southbound passengers were det…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9I4_dunlop-station_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
Dunlop Station on the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad was located here on the southern boundary of David Dunlop's Ellerslie estate. During the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865, a military rail spur was completed in March 1865 that extend…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9I3_swift-creek-battlefield-a-landscape-of-change_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
The Bermuda Hundred Campaign began on May 5, 1864, when Union General Benjamin Butler and the 33,000-man Army of the James landed at Bermuda Hundred nine miles northeast of here. General Butler's westward advance threatened Drewry's Bluff and Rich…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9HZ_union-army-checked_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
Here the Army of the James, moving on Petersburg, May 9, 1864, was checked by the Confederate defenses on the creek and turned northward.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9HW_battle-of-swift-creek_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
You are standing in the middle of the Union line that faced the Confederate route of attack up the Richmond Turnpike on May 9, 1864, during Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's Bermuda Hundred Campaign. Here, along Swift Creek, elements of Butler's Arm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9HV_brave-to-madness_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
Nearby on 9 May 1864, Brig. Gen. Johnson Hagood's South Carolina Brigade attacked advancing elements of the Union X and XVIII Corps. As they 11th S.C. Infantry Regiment engaged the Federals across Swift Creek near Arrowfield Church, the 21st and 2…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN4_electric-railway_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
Located here was Stop 54 on the electric interurban railway line between Richmond and Petersburg. Opened in 1902 by the Virginia Passenger and Power Co., the line crossed Swift Creek on a steel truss bridge and followed Ashby Avenue to its interse…