You searched for City|State|Country: , va us
Page 23 of 26 — Showing results 221 to 230 of 255
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM998_totopotomoy-line_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Crossing the road at this point were Federal entrenchments heavily shelled by the Confederates in the operation of May 29-30, 1864, immediately preceding the Second Battle of Cold Harbor. The nearby Shelton House was mentioned frequently in dispat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM996_totopotomoy-line_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Fortifications on this hill mark the strong confederate works along Totopotomoy Creek, prepared as a defensive position in General Lee's withdrawal from the Rapidan to the James. Engagements here May 29-30, 1864, were preliminary to the Second Bat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98Q_stuarts-ride_Mechanicsville-VA.html
One-quarter mile to the Northwest, at Linney's, "Jeb" Stuart's cavalry met and charged the Federals in the raid undertaken June 12-14, 1862, to discover the Federal line of communication. There fell Captain Wm. Latan
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98O_cold-harbor-campaign_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Across the Old Church road at this point ran the advanced line of about 700 yards held by part of Ewell's Confederate Corps on May 30, 1864. Abandoned that night, the position was occupied May 31 by troops of the Fifth Federal corps.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98N_cold-harbor-campaign_Mechanicsville-VA.html
The second advanced position held by Ewell's Confederate Corps here crossed the Old Church Road. This position was evacuated by the Confederates on the night of May 30, 1864. Occupied by the Federals on May 31 and attacked from the West by Souther…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98M_battle-of-cold-harbor_Mechanicsville-VA.html
On the main Confederate line, eight miles long, which here crossed the Old Church Road, the Federal Army, June 3, 1864, made numerous futile and costly charges. The heaviest of these were three miles southeastward and were accounted "the worst sla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98L_battle-of-cold-harbor_Mechanicsville-VA.html
The Confederate earthworks here crossing this road were occupied May 31 - June 12, 1864, by the Left Division "Fields" of the First Corps. Then commanded by R.H. Anderson. Heavily attacked on June 3, this part of the line was held against repeated…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98K_battle-of-cold-harbor_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Here Longstreet's Corps, with Breckinridge and A.P. Hill's Corps to the southward, repulsed on June 3, 1864, fourteen assaults from the East against the confederate main line. The federal losses, about 7000, were the heaviest ever sustained in Ame…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98I_battle-of-cold-harbor_Mechanicsville-VA.html
This was approximately the farthest point gained and held by the Federals in their assaults of June 3, 1864 on the Confederate main line, 130 yards to the west. The heaviest losses sustained by the Federals were along and on either side of this road.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98H_battle-of-cold-harbor_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Advancing on June 1, 1864 from Old Cold Harbor, the Federal Sixth Corps occupied this and adjacent positions from which on June 3 the Army of the Potomac delivered repeated assaults against the main Confederate defences, which were approximately 4…