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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0V_field-fortifications_Petersburg-VA.html
Pamplin Historical Park has created these replica earthworks to suggest how this area might have looked during the winter of 1864-65. Both armies at Petersburg constructed long lines of field fortifications. Engineer officers used standard manuals…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0S_confederate-winter-quarters_Petersburg-VA.html
Brigadier General Samuel McGowan's South Carolina Brigade spent the winter of 1864-1865 very close to the fortifications they defended. A temporary scarcity of building materials in the early winter compelled many of McGowan's men to rely on their…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0N_battlefield-terrain_Petersburg-VA.html
This bridge spans a small branch of Arthur's Swamp. The ravine created by this streamlet had important consequences for both the defending Confederates and the attacking Union troops.
The earthen mounds immediately in front of you are the remai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0K_the-confederate-fortifications_Petersburg-VA.html
The earthen wall in front of you is a part of the main Confederate defense line begun in 1864 and defended until April 2, 1865. You are standing behind the line facing southeast towards the Union positions about one mile away.
When Lieutenant G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0I_mcgowans-south-carolina-brigade_Petersburg-VA.html
Brigadier General Samuel McGowan, a 43-year-old lawyer and politician from Abbeville, South Carolina, commanded the troops responsible for maintaining these fortifications from October 1864 through March 1865. McGowan's Brigade consisted of five S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0F_confederate-winter-huts_Petersburg-VA.html
The two mounds on the lawn in front of you mark the locations of winter huts built by soldiers of Brigadier General Samuel McGowan's South Carolina brigade during the winter of 1864-65. McGowan's troops established several camps in this area immed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0C_a-mysterious-historic-feature_Petersburg-VA.html
The shallow depression in front of you marks the location of what was once a substantial dwelling. Archaeologists excavated this site in 1997 and discovered a well-preserved brick foundation and flooring. The artifacts recovered from the site sugg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA09_the-hart-house_Petersburg-VA.html
Charles H. Carr, a native of New York, purchased twenty acres from the Boisseaus of Tudor Hall in March 1859. He began construction of the house in front of you shortly afterwards. Carr died in July 1862 while enlisted in the Confederate army. In …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA04_the-hart-farm_Petersburg-VA.html
This extension of The Breakthrough Trail leads to the historic Hart House, a ten minute walk from here. The trail parallels the Confederate earthworks that extended across the Boisseau farm (Tudor Hall) to the neighboring Hart farm to the southwes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA02_the-battle-of-harmon-road_Petersburg-VA.html
On the final day of the Battle of Peebles' Farm, October 2, 1864, Union troops of Brigadier General Gershom Mott's Third Division, Second Army Corps, moved against the Confederate breastworks at the Hart Farm. Mott had orders to determine if the t…