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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN7D_a-splendid-field-of-battle_Henrico-VA.html
Union commanders chose an ideal location to fight their last battle of the Seven Days. As many as 40 cannon covered the one-half-mile front, stretching from the slopes of Crew's Run on your left to a similar drop to Western Run on your right. Near…
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"It was a most mad enterprise, but it was ordered...It was the hottest musketry fire I was ever in. Our regiment melted under it. And we fell back sullenly-we were too exhausted and too proud to run!" Elliott Grabill, 5th United States Colored Tro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZJ_fort-johnson_Henrico-VA.html
In the hours following the September 29, 1864, Federal triumph at Fort Harrison, 1,000 yards south of here, Confederate defenses stiffened. Two hundred Georgia infantrymen and Virginia artillerists filled Fort Johnson. Later in the morning they re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZI_building-fort-burnham_Richmond-VA.html
After capturing Fort Harrison on September 29, men of the 18th Corps concentrated on enlarging the break they had created in the Confederate defenses. Corps commander General E.O.C. Ord fell wounded as some units pushed south toward Fort Hoke. Oth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZH_bombproof_Richmond-VA.html
This photograph was made in late fall 1864 within feet of where you now stand. Note the casual posture of these Union soldiers, despite the fact that Confederates were less than 700 yards away. As active operations gave way to winter routine, sold…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZF_surprise-attack_Henrico-VA.html
You are standing where hand-to-hand fighting erupted as Union troops stormed into Fort Harrison on September 29, 1864. On top of the fort's parapet, Gen. Hiram Burnham clutched his chest after receiving a mortal wound. General George J. Stannard's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZ7_fort-harrison-trail_Richmond-VA.html
Confederate soldiers built Fort Harrison on this high point of land as part of their scheme to protect the approaches to Richmond. The Union army seized the fort after heavy fighting in September 1864, altered its appearance, and renamed it. The t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLY9_guns-of-fort-brady_Richmond-VA.html
Union photographers Andrew J. Russell and T.C. Roche arrived south of Richmond in 1865 and recorded some of the most important images of Fort Brady. This view was taken from the parapet behind you and depicts the fort's fighting battery. In the si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLY7_guarding-the-james_Richmond-VA.html
After tremendous labor in a short period of time, the fort was ready for defense. By mid-October 1864, Company C, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery brought several large cannon into the fort and mounted them along the walls facing the James River. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLY5_fort-brady-trail_Richmond-VA.html
Before you looms Fort Brady, one of the best-preserved Civil War forts in the National Park Service. Like most of the fortifications built during the Civil War, Fort Brady was made of earth instead of fragile bricks. Dirt could better withstand th…