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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4B6_a-stupendous-failure_Petersburg-VA.html
"It is agreed that the thing was a perfect success, except that it did not succeed." - Major Charles F. Adams, Jr., USA
The explosion cleared the Union path to Petersburg. But instead of pushing through, the first waves of Union attackers simpl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4B2_the-crater_Petersburg-VA.html
"There was utmost consternation. Some men scampered out of the lines; some, paralyzed with fear, vaguely scratched at the counterscarp as if trying to escape. Smoke and dust filled the air." - Col. William McMaster, 17th South Carolina Infantry
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AZ_prelude-to-the-crater_Petersburg-VA.html
"The mine is all finished, the powder in, the fuse all ready. I hope that the attack will be successful, for if it is, we shall have Petersburg in our possession." - Col. Stephen M. Weld, 50th Massachusetts July 28, 1864
The predawn darkness of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AY_a-fatal-error_Petersburg-VA.html
A division of African-American troops in Burnside's Ninth Corps was to have led the attack that followed the explosion of the mine. But just hours before the assault, Union army commander George G. Meade changed the plan. The result: chaos and tra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AG_a-final-effort_Petersburg-VA.html
Desperate to relieve the Union noose strangling Petersburg, on March 25, 1865, General Lee used pre-dawn darkness and stealth to pierce the Union Line here at Fort Steadman."We were very much elated at first, as we thought we had won a great victo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AF_mahones-brigade_Petersburg-VA.html
This stone marks the approximately the extreme right of Mahone's Brigade Virginia Volunteers when it captured the Confederate Breastworks on the 30th of July, 1864.
Placed by the Petersburg Chapter U.D.C. November 1910.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AE_fort-stedman_Petersburg-VA.html
In the last grand offensive movement of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, Fort Stedman, with adjacent works, was captured at 4:30 A.M., March 25, 1865, by a well selected body of Confederates, under the command of General John B. Gordon.
An adva…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AD_defending-fort-haskell_Petersburg-VA.html
Daylight on March 25, 1865, brought furious fighting to Fort Haskell.
"Our thin line mounted the banquette - the wounded and sick loading the muskets, while those with sound hands stood to the parapets and blazed away." - George L. Kilmer, 14th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AC_fort-stedman_Petersburg-VA.html
It is quite interesting to see a fort going up. The men work in the manner of bees. The mass throw the earth; the engineer soldiers do the ?rivetting,' that is, the interior facing the logs. The engineer sergeants run about with tapes and stakes, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AB_dividing-point_Petersburg-VA.html
Twice during the Siege of Petersburg, Harrison's Creek became a dividing point between contending armies.
June 15, 1864 After being driven out of the Dimmock Line, the outnumbered Confederate defenders of Petersburg formed a new line on the hei…