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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA1N_seven-days-battles_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and his troops passed through this intersection on 27 June 1862, having arrived from the Shenandoah Valley. Jackson's troops united with Gen. Robert E. Lee's forces just south of here at Walnut Grove …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9X2_cold-harbor-june-2-1864_Mechanicsville-VA.html
This drawing (below) by the famous Civil-War artist, Alfred Waud, provides a rare glimpse of the Cold Harbor battlefield, sketched from this very spot on June 2, 1864. Union cannons blazed away at the Confederate lines only a half-mile in front of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9WL_walk-in-the-footsteps-of-history_Mechanicsville-VA.html
This one-mile walking trail covers historic ground that witnessed two weeks of intense fighting in June 1864. It winds through earthen fortifications built more than a century ago. The Cold Harbor battle raged over thousands of acres, and this loo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9WK_we-must-hold-this-line_Mechanicsville-VA.html
After two days of bitter combat, Confederate infantry built their final line of defense across this spot. Remnants of that line are visible emerging from the woods to your left. Richmond stood only nine miles to the southwest and General Lee knew …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9WJ_between-the-lines_Mechanicsville-VA.html
You are standing now just in front of the main section of Confederate fortifications. The primary line of Union entrenchments is 200 yards to your left. With the end of Grant's attacks on the afternoon of June 3, the battle followed a less noisy b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9VX_union-artillery_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Porter posted his batteries intermittently along this ridge. Most of his guns were twelve-pounder Napoleons like the two here.
"The woods were full of smoke," wrote a Massachusetts artillerist, "and thicker and thicker buzzed the bullets." Soon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9VW_confederate-pursuit_Mechanicsville-VA.html
By nightfall Porter's force had safely retreated across the Chickahominy. Lee had sustained nearly 9,000 casualties in his first victory of the war, while the Federals lost close to 6,000. "I could hear on all sides the dreadful groans of the woun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9VR_2nd-connecticut-volunteer-heavy-artillery_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Late on the afternoon of June 1, 1864, Col. Elisha Strong Kellogg and his 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery attacked Confederate entrenchments to the west along with other Federal troops from the Sixth and the Eighteenth Corps. Kellogg adv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9VP_seven-days-battles_Mechanicsville-VA.html
On this hill, facing north, Sykes's division was posted in the afternoon of June 27, 1862, holding the eastern end of the Union line. Here Jackson attacked, while to the west A. P. Hill and Longstreet renewed their assaults. When the Union line wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9VM_site-of-ellersons-mill_Mechanicsville-VA.html
The foundation of the mill was located in the depression below the road bed. The millrace that supplied water to power the mill was built along the base of the hill and remnants can be seen today. The mill pond was located just beyond the modern R…