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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10PF_defenses-of-richmond_Henrico-VA.html
Nearby stood one of the outer Confederate defensive lines that guarded Richmond during the Civil War (1861-1865). A series of earthworks and fortifications was built to protect the city and to allow the outnumbered Confederates to make maximum use…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10NF_grace-evelyn-arents_Henrico-VA.html
Grace Arents was a visionary social reformer and philanthropist whose quiet determination and generosity transformed Richmond. Her passions were children, nature, books, architecture, and her church. To aid the poor, "Miss Grace" established the c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX8M_the-grandest-sean-of-all_Henrico-VA.html
Beginning just after 4:00 pm and continuing into darkness, charging Confederate infantry made repeated assaults up these gentle slopes. In several places those attacks came within point-blank range of the Union lines. This ground is such a place.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX8K_confederate-futility_Henrico-VA.html
The Confederate plan called for dozens of cannon to gather here and on the Poindexter Farm, nearly a mile to the east (your left). Their combined fire, directed at the Union batteries atop Malvern Hill, would clear the way for an infantry assault …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX8J_the-farthest-advance_Henrico-VA.html
Two small structures used as slave quarters stood in this clearing. Some of the fiercest fighting raged around them in the twilight, as men of Paul J. Semmes' Confederate brigade used the buildings for shelter and exchanged short-range fire with c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX8I_infantry-against-infantry_Henrico-VA.html
Federal artillery enjoyed outstanding fields of fire at Malvern Hill. But the terrain here in front of the West House had wrinkles and hollows that could offer protection to attackers. Union General Darius N. Couch of the Fourth Corps, commanding …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVLF_madness_Henrico-VA.html
Around 5:00 p.m. the Confederate attack began when Colonel John B. Gordon's Alabama brigade emerged from the woods behind you. Over the next three hours 15 Confederate brigades marched into a maelstrom of iron and lead. Union artillery blasted the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVLE_the-gathering-storm_Henrico-VA.html
Atop this knoll Confederate General D. H. Hill had an unobstructed view to the crest of Malvern Hill. In the distance stood the West farm house and fields where Union batteries waited to dispute any Southern advance. By early afternoon Hill's five…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVLD_artillerys-terrible-effect_Henrico-VA.html
Malvern Hill is barely 900 yards wide here at its narrow crest, leaving room for only a small number of the nearly 200 cannon available to the Union army on July 1. The defenders placed between two and three dozen pieces of artillery across the hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVLC_a-battlefield-landmark_Henrico-VA.html
The Thomas J. West house stood as a prominent part of the battlefield scene—a goal for attacking Confederates and a landmark along the Union line. Most of the fresh Federal troops marching to the front on July 1 moved past this house, coming…