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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EKW_confederate-leaders_Chester-VA.html
When the Bermuda Hundred Campaign began, Confederate forces south of the James River were widely scattered across southern Virginia and eastern North Carolina. Confederate eyes were focused on events to the north where the Battle of the Wilderness…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EKV_the-bermuda-hundred-campaign-federal-leaders_Chester-VA.html
In April of 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant met with Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler and approved his plan for attacking Richmond by moving an army up the James River. Grant decided that while the Army of the Potomac moved against Robert E. Lee and t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EKU_the-bermuda-hundred-campaign-begins_Chester-VA.html
On May 4, 1864, Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler began to load 38,000 men of the Army of the James on transport ships at Newport News and Yorktown, Virginia. Their goal was a neck of land in Chesterfield County known as Bermuda Hundred. Butler was to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EKR_howlett-line-gun-position_Chester-VA.html
The ground you are standing on would have been a very dangerous place from May of 1864 until the fall of Petersburg in April of 1865. In front of you is one of the many gun positions that the Confederates used to protect the Howlett Line. This pos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1946_remembrance_Chester-VA.html
Many of the men, like Major Parker and Lieutenant J. Thompson Brown, returned to their homes in Richmond after the war. Brown became a successful local businessman, and in 188 purchased the ground here in order to preserve the area where the batte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1945_parkers-battery_Chester-VA.html
Parker's men improved this earthen redoubt, referred to as a battery, so as to better protect their guns stationed behind its walls. Supporting infantry, from the 15th and 17th Virginia regiments, filled the adjacent trenches and manned the forwar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1944_howlett-line_Chester-VA.html
These earthworks are part of the Confederate defensive position known as the Howlett Line. It was a string of interconnected redoubts and entrenchments that stretched for eight miles. The line took its name from the Howlett House located at its no…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1943_boy-company_Chester-VA.html
This prominent battery in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia often went by its nickname, "The Boy Company." Although the average battery member was 25 years old, the company had several lads between the ages of 14 and 19.
Under its dynam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1942_parkers-battery_Chester-VA.html
(left panel)Parker's BatteryA one-quarter-mile walking trail through the site offers a window into the existence of a typical Civil War artillery company on the front lines during the final year of the war. The men depended on the marssive earthen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10PJ_point-of-rocks_Chester-VA.html
Point of Rocks, named for a sandstone cliff on the Appomattox River, marked the southern end of the Union defensive line that stretched across the Bermuda Hundred peninsula. In May 1864, the Union army seized property east of the present-day park …