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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AG_a-final-effort_Petersburg-VA.html
Desperate to relieve the Union noose strangling Petersburg, on March 25, 1865, General Lee used pre-dawn darkness and stealth to pierce the Union Line here at Fort Steadman."We were very much elated at first, as we thought we had won a great victo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AF_mahones-brigade_Petersburg-VA.html
This stone marks the approximately the extreme right of Mahone's Brigade Virginia Volunteers when it captured the Confederate Breastworks on the 30th of July, 1864.
Placed by the Petersburg Chapter U.D.C. November 1910.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AE_fort-stedman_Petersburg-VA.html
In the last grand offensive movement of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, Fort Stedman, with adjacent works, was captured at 4:30 A.M., March 25, 1865, by a well selected body of Confederates, under the command of General John B. Gordon.
An adva…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AD_defending-fort-haskell_Petersburg-VA.html
Daylight on March 25, 1865, brought furious fighting to Fort Haskell.
"Our thin line mounted the banquette - the wounded and sick loading the muskets, while those with sound hands stood to the parapets and blazed away." - George L. Kilmer, 14th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AC_fort-stedman_Petersburg-VA.html
It is quite interesting to see a fort going up. The men work in the manner of bees. The mass throw the earth; the engineer soldiers do the ?rivetting,' that is, the interior facing the logs. The engineer sergeants run about with tapes and stakes, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AB_dividing-point_Petersburg-VA.html
Twice during the Siege of Petersburg, Harrison's Creek became a dividing point between contending armies.
June 15, 1864 After being driven out of the Dimmock Line, the outnumbered Confederate defenders of Petersburg formed a new line on the hei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AA_casa-de-armijo_Albuquerque-NM.html
Built in 1706 and occupied for many generations by the Armijo family who were prominent in local history. This hacienda was gay with social life.
During the turmoil of the early settlement the Mexican, Spanish and American Civil War occupation …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4A9_battery-8-of-the-dimmock-line_Prince-George-VA.html
On June 15, 1864, after seizing Battery 5, Union troops swept southward along the Dimmock Line. Men of the 1st and 22nd Colored Troops captured Battery 8, overcoming heavy resistance from part of Brig. Gen. Henry A. Wise's Virginia brigade. By the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4A8_hendersonville-arab-the-horse_Walterboro-SC.html
Hendersonville Settled in 1791 and known as Godfrey Savannah, this area later was the summer home for a colony of Combahee River rice planters. The settlement, known as Hendersonville by 1862, was named for Dr. Edward Rogers Henderson, a local lan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4A7_batteries-c-and-g-3d-u-s-artillery_Keedysville-MD.html
U.S.A.Batteries C and G, 3d U.S. Artillery.Captain Horatio G. Gibson, U.S.A. Commanding.(September 17, 1862.)Horse Batteries C and G (Consolidated), 3d U.S. Artillery, crossed the Antietam in the forenoon of September 17, and went into position a …