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In March 1775, a Masonic lodge attached to the British army initiated Prince Hall and 14 other free black men as Freemasons in Massachusetts. Meeting provisionally as African Lodge No. 1, the black Freemasons gained full privileges in 1787 when th…
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By 6:00 am on July 30, 1864 the trenches before you were filled with black Union soldiers waiting to enter the Battle of the Crater. Ahead of them in line were white Union troops struggling to advance because of Confederate fire and th…
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Joseph Cotten, actor, was born in Petersburg. At school he excelled in football and on the stage. He appeared in several Broadway productions during the 1930s and joined Orson Welles's Mercury Theater company. Cotten made his film debut in 1941 al…
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Beginning in the late 1880's, this region of Prince George County along the Norfolk & Western Railway became the center of the first largest settlement of Czech and Slovak immigrants in Virginia. Originally known as Wells Station, then Estes, it w…
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Colonel Olcott and his regiment crossed the entrenchments about 350 yards to the northeast of this position (to your right) during their attack on April 2, 1865. His experience was similar to that of the Vermont troops who fought
on this ground: …
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Once the sixth Corps completed its Breakthrough, corps commander Horatio wright ordered seven of his eight brigades to pivot southwest and move against the remaining Confederate defenses north of Hatcher's Run. Wright assigned just one brigade, Co…
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"The charge of Major-Gen. Wright's veterans under cover of the darkness and mist ... will forever live in history as one of the grandest and most sublime actions of the war."—Sgt. Newton J. Terrill, 14th New Jersey Infantry, USA
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OFZ_pamplin-historical-park_Petersburg-VA.html
Pamplin Historical Park
&
The National Museum
Of the Civil War Soldier
Base of Sculpture:
My Thoughts And Heart Are With You At Home,
But My Duty Lies Here With Cause And Comrades
Back of Sculpture:
Ron Tunison 1998 Cairo N.Y.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O1X_pocahontas-island_Petersburg-VA.html
The town of Pocahontas, established in 1752, became part of Petersburg in 1784. By 1860, more members of the city's large free African American community lived here than in any other neighborhood. Their work in tobacco factories and on wharves fue…
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From here at Fort Welch, you can see the ground over which soldiers struggled during three distinct battles. On October 2, 1864, Federals advanced across the ground to your left in an attempt to capture the key Confederate intermediate supply rout…