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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQXH_a-bloody-baptism-of-fire_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"It was the work of almost a single minute. The air was filled with sulphurous smoke, and the shrieks and howls of more than two hundred and fifty mangled men rose above the yells of triumphant rebels and the roar of their musketry."Theodore F. Va…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQXG_cold-harbor_Mechanicsville-VA.html
(left panel)Visiting Richmond National Battlefield ParkThe concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the battlefield lands…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQXD_lees-first-strike_Mechanicsville-VA.html
The Confederate plan did not call for an attack against the Union position along Beaver Dam Creek. Instead, a series of manuevers would make the Union defenses here untenable. But poor communication and unexpected obstacles caused delays. Lee felt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMORX_holding-the-high-ground_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Today's landscape makes it difficult to appreciate the many strengths of the Union position. The charging Confederates faced more obstacles than they could overcome: open fields, steep slopes, a broad and swampy creek, Union infantry using a millr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMORV_beaver-dam-creek_Mechanicsville-VA.html
(left panel)Visiting Richmond National Battlefield ParkThe concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the battlefield lands…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNCA_powerful-position_Mechanicsville-VA.html
On the morning of June 27, General Fitz John Porter's men arranged their formidable defenses along the slope of Boatswain's Creek, where you are standing. Orders directed him to resist Lee's advance, "even to my destruction," remembered Porter. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNC7_balloons-over-the-battlefield_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"The view I had of the field of battle from the balloon for the first time that afternoon showed me how serious it was?..I was up half an hour in all, when I saw certain movements of our forces which made me hurry down and gallop up to Genl. McCle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN53_springfield-plantation_Mechanicsville-VA.html
In 1862 this farmhouse was home to the widow Sarah Watt, her granddaughter, Mary Jane Haw, and a maid. It was a typical Hanover County plantation of several hundred acres with some 28 slaves who produced a modest income from grains, potatoes, and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN52_garthright-house_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"We charged across the open field under a murdrous storm of balls & canister shot...& soon gained complet[e] possesion of all the buildings....We soon fortified as best we could the aproaches to the house by barrells & farming tools & held the pos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN50_grants-grand-assault_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"We did not go far, only for six rods [100 feet]oon?by the lively use of bayonets, frying-pans, tin plates, and cups, we had a temporary protection, and the satisfaction of holding practically all the ground we had been over."Oscar Waite, 10th Ver…
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