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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO0H_seven-confederate-brothers_Windsor-VA.html
On 22 Apr. 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, six sons of Benjamin Mills Roberts and Mary Ann Wright Roberts enlisted in Co. D (Isle of Wight Rifle Grays), 16th Va. Inf. Regt. They were Mills W., John W., Sylvester J., Benjamin C., Francis C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO0C_fort-huger_Smithfield-VA.html
(prelude)In April 1862, Union forces under Gen. George B. McClellan began a major campaign to capture Richmond, marching west from Fort Monroe up the Peninsula between the York and James Rivers toward the Confederate capital. A Confederate army ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMOX_james-river_Carrollton-VA.html
The James River flows about 340 miles from the junction of the Jackson and Cowpasture rivers in Botetourt County to Hampton Roads at the Chesapeake Bay. In 1607 the first permanent English settlement in the New World was established on its banks a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC8W_old-town_Smithfield-VA.html
Half a mile north, stood the Warrascoyack Indian village. Captain John Smith obtained corn there for the starving colonists in 1608. The Warrascoyacks took part in the massacre of 1622 and their village was destroyed in 1623. In 1680, Old Town was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC8K_fort-huger_Smithfield-VA.html
Shells have been found in amazing quantities along this area of the river. The Indians who lived beside the saltwater stretches of river did not have tuckahoe and other freshwater plants to sustain them in poor crop years, when shellfish likely be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC8H_welcome-to-fort-boykin-historic-park_Smithfield-VA.html
Fort Boykin was named after Francis Marshall Boykin who was a Virginia state senator, general in the state militia and owner of the property on which the fort was built. The topography at Fort Boykin provided the best possible location for monitor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC80_fort-huger_Smithfield-VA.html
One mile northeast, at Hardy's Bluff on Lawne's Neck, existed Fort Huger, a Civil War earthen fortification. Virginia State Engineer Col. Andrew Talcott authorized this and other forts to block any Union naval advance up the James River to Richmon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBWP_zuni_Zuni-VA.html
Zuni, a rail stop along the Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad, was established by 1736. Confederate forces were stationed here in 1861 to protect the railroad bridge and the road leading to Suffolk. In May 1862, they destroyed the bridge to prevent Un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBWM_blackwater-line-blackwater-bridge_Zuni-VA.html
During the Civil War, Confederate forces guarded this Blackwater River crossing as a part of the Blackwater defensive line. On 14 Nov. 1862, Col. Charles C. Dodge, 1st Battalion New York Mounted Rifles, led his troops in a skirmish against element…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBVC_southampton-county-isle-of-wight-county_Zuni-VA.html
(Obverse)Southampton CountyArea 604 Square MilesFormed in 1748 from Isle of Wight and Nansemond. Named for a locality that was originally named for the Earl of Southampton, active in the first settlement. General William Mahone was born in this co…