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(front)Remembers the valor and devotion ofits soldiers who participated in the battleof Gaines' Mill, Virginia - June 27, 1862
Here, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Leecontinued his attacks against Union Maj.Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of thePot…
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Captain Co. F, "Essex Troop," 9th Va. Cavalry, C.S.A., killed in action June 13, 1862, aged 29.
"A brother bore his body from the field" and "woman's voice.....read over this hallowed dust the ritual for the dead."
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Site of Old Forte Matuxon, dismantled in 1676 by Major John Page.
Page's Warehouse, port of entry and export, established by Matthew Page long prior to 1734. Town incorporated November 1762. Competed with Richmond for capitol of Virginia.
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Only archaeological remnants of Studley survive today, but in the 18th century this was the site of an impressive two-story brick house. Studley was built by John Syme in the 1720s for his wife Sarah Winston. After his death, she married John Henr…
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(left panel)Visiting Richmond National Battlefield ParkThe concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the battlefield lands…
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Upon Patrick Henry's marriage to Sarah Shelton in 1754, he received for her dowry a 300-acre tract of land and six slaves. Like many Virginians with small farms, Henry labored in the fields with his slaves. Much of the soil at Pine Slash had been …
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"Dashing up the steep bank, being within thirty yards of the enemy's works, we flew towards the breastworks, cleared them, and slaughtered the retreating devils as they scampered up the hill towards their battery." Decimus Barziza, 4th Texas Infan…
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"Yesterday evening we was in one of the hardest fought battles ever known. I never had a clear conception of the horrors of war until last night?.In going round that battlefield with a candle searching for friends I could hear on all sides the dre…
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Civil War artillery was a splendid defensive weapon, particularly when the battlefield landscape offered the gunners open fields of fire. At Gaines' Mill the woods plagued the Union artillery. Several gaps in the trees however, offered a direct li…
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Modern snake-rail fencing and shallow depressions carved out long ago by wagons and livestock mark the location of one of two thoroughfares that passed through the plantation. This road led from the Watt Farm to the New Bridge crossing of the Chic…