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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98S_richmond-defences_Richmond-VA.html
Here March 1, 1864, two regiments of Confederate local defence troops under Col. John McAnerney defeated Federal cavalry under Col. Ulric Dahlgren, who sought to destroy Richmond and to release Federal prisoners there. On the same day Kilpatrick w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98R_richmond-defences_Richmond-VA.html
At this point, where the intermediate line of the Richmond defences crossed Brook Road, Confederate forces on March 1, 1864, repulsed Kilpatrick's Raid, undertaken to release Federal prisoners in Richmond. On the same day, another column, under Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98G_fort-harrison_Richmond-VA.html
Six hundred yards West of this road stood the Confederate Fort Harrison. It was stormed Sept. 29, 1864 after a surprise-attack by Federal troops and was held against counter attacks the next day. New Confederate defensive lines were drawn in rear …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98E_battlefield-of-malvern-hill_Richmond-VA.html
Against the Federals holding this eminence, the Confederates delivered repeated assaults from the North on July 1, 1862 and lost about 5,000 men in the final, indecisive Battle of the Seven Days' Campaign. That night McClellan withdrew to Harrison…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM985_richmond-defences_Richmond-VA.html
Here ran the intermediate line of Richmond defences. Built in 1862-64, these defences included 25 inner forts and batteries, beyond which this continuous earthwork encircled the city. The third or outer line was distant from the capitol 4 to 7 mil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM935_canons-and-corpses_Richmond-VA.html
Big guns on the hill deterred riots - in the over crowded prison encampment to your left. Few escaped, most died of starvation, dysentery, and disease. In total about 1,000 perished. The cemetery, now empty, was to your right where trees grow today.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM92M_confederate-memorial-pyramid_Richmond-VA.html
[South side]:Numini et Patri ae Asto
[West side]:Erected by the Holly-Wood Memorial AssociationA.D. 1869
[North side]:Memoria in Aeterna
[East side]:To the Confederate Dead
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM92K_richmond-howitzers-monument_Richmond-VA.html
To commemoratethe deeds and servicesofThe Richmond Howitzersof the period1861-1865[On south side of granite base, on the bronze emblem of the Richmond Howitzers]:Cita Mors Aut Victoria Laeta 1859[On north side of granite base, on bronze emblem of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65H_malvern-hill_Richmond-VA.html
Nearby stood the Malvern Hill manor house built for Thomas Cocke in the 17th century. The Marquis de Lafayette camped here in July-August 1781, and elements of the Virginia militia encamped nearby during the War of 1812. During the Civil War, 1 Ju…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5V2_broad-street-station_Richmond-VA.html
Broad Street Station served passengers of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad from 6 Jan. 1919 until 15 Nov. 1975. The Neoclassical Revival station was the only commercial building designed by John R…