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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9V7_malvern-hill_Henrico-VA.html
Malvern Hill is the story of Confederate infantry against massed Federal artillery - Southern valor against Union firepower. Late in the afternoon of July 1, 1862, blasts from Union cannon blanketed this field with smoke. Residents of Staunton, Vi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9V4_battlefield-landscape_Richmond-VA.html
Photographs taken during and shortly after the war help us to understand, preserve and rehabilitate the battlefield landscape. In the 1880's a photographer recorded a series of views of Malvern Hill to accompany Civil War articles published in Cen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9V3_battle-commences_Henrico-VA.html
A march of less than three miles from the Glendale battlefield brought the Confederates to this spot at the foot of Malvern Hill. In earlier times it was a peaceful landscape, but on July 1 a line of Union artillery with infantry supports held the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9V2_twilight-action_Henrico-VA.html
Stonewall Jackson's wing of the Confederate army joined in the action just before darkness. Some of his infantry advanced on this side of the road, toward Malvern Hill's crest. Broken and disoriented formations of Confederate infantry blocked thei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9V1_union-firepower_Henrico-VA.html
Steep terrain on both flanks of the Union line funneled the Confederate attackers into the face of 29 Union cannon lining this ridge. Six 12-pounder Napoleon guns of Company A, 5th U.S. Artillery, fired from near this spot.
During the afternoon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9V0_the-west-house_Richmond-VA.html
Sitting atop Malvern Hill only feet from the roaring line of Union cannon, the West House became an instant battlefield landmark. The original house dated from approximately 1831, but was rebuilt decades after the Civil War. The current structure …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9SX_fort-gilmer_Henrico-VA.html
To the right of this road was Fort Gilmer, successfully defended against Federal assaults and held until the eve of the evacuation of Richmond. Kershaw's Division, the last Confederate infantry to leave the Richmond line, abandoned Fort Gilmer at …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9SA_seven-days-battles_Richmond-VA.html
This was the extreme left of the Union line at Glendale, and was held by Hooker's Division. When McCall (just to the north) was broken, Hooker, supported by Burns's brigade, drove the Confederates back. In the night the Union army marched southward.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9S9_seven-days-battles_Henrico-VA.html
Here Lee met Longstreet and Jackson in the morning of July 1, 1862. D. H. Hill reported the strength of the Union position on Malvern Hill; but Lee, having cause to believe the Unionists were weakening, prepared to attack. Jackson and D. H. Hill m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9RZ_seven-days-battles_Richmond-VA.html
Willis Church Road runs from here to Malvern Hill. A large part of Union Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac followed this road south toward the James River, four miles ahead, near the end of the Seven Days' Battles in 1862. On 30 June,…