You searched for City|State|Country: , va us
Page 15 of 26 — Showing results 141 to 150 of 255
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAL1_hanover-confederate-soldiers-monument_Hanover-VA.html
Hanoverto herConfederate Soldiersand to herNoble Womenwho loved them1861-1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKN_cold-harbor-battlefield-walking-trail_Mechanicsville-VA.html
For thirteen days Union and Confederate armies faced each other around Cold Harbor, their lines separated by only 150 yards of ravaged ground. Twice, on June 1 and June 3 1864, savage fighting erupted when the Federals launched massive assaults ag…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKI_the-family-cemetery_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"Near Cold Harbor stands the house where my father was born, and not far from the house there is a graveyard, surrounded by a brick wall?there sleep the generations of my forefathers. In that enclosure is buried Mr. James Hooper.Dr. Thomas W. Hoop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKH_misery-in-the-trenches_Mechanicsville-VA.html
The earthworks before you were home to Union soldiers for nearly two weeks during the fighting at Cold Harbor. One Federal officer described the suffering that these troops endured living and working in the trenches:
"The work of intrenching co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKG_digging-in_Mechanicsville-VA.html
By the time the armies reached Cold Harbor soldiers on both sides were adept at building earthworks. The trenches before you are typical of the works that stretched for nearly seven miles and defined the fighting here at Cold Harbor. Union general…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKE_the-deadly-work-of-sharpshooters_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Adding to the misery of the Union and Confederate soldiers at Cold Harbor was the fear of enemy sharpshooters. Quite often armed with special rifles these marksmen would prey on any unfortunate soldier who appeared in their sights. A Confederate o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKD_the-battle-of-gaines-mill-1862_Mechanicsville-VA.html
All the visible remains along the trail date from the June 1864, Battle of Cold Harbor, but this ground figured prominently in the Seven Days campaign of 1862 as well.
On June 27, 1862, General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Confederates advan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKC_scars-of-conflict_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Twelve days of combat transformed this once pastoral landscape. With every shift of a line of battle, the soldiers dug new works. Reserve troops dug too, well behind the front lines. By battle's end, earthworks gouged the landscape in every direct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKB_federal-artillery-battery_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Under the cover of night, Union artillerists left their horses at the foot of the hill behind you and dragged six rifled cannon up the slope by hand. The guns were then placed side by side inside this redoubt, with earthen mounds known as traverse…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKA_the-bloody-eighth_Mechanicsville-VA.html
The 8th New York Heavy Artillery joined the Army of the Potomac midway through the Overland Campaign in an effort to offset the Federal casualties suffered at the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. The regiment of 1,600 men, still fresh f…