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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LU5_confederate-counterattack_Richmond-VA.html
General Robert E. Lee deplored the loss of Fort Harrison and made immediate efforts to recapture it. Lee himself accompanied a large body of reinforcements from Petersburg on September 29. The next afternoon he threw five veteran brigades, numberi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LK0_first-park-headquarters_Richmond-VA.html
This 1930s photograph shows the headquarters for the Richmond Battlefields Park Corporation. That private organization, composed of Richmond citizens, made the first effort to preserve Civil War battlefields around the city. In 1927 they purchased…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LJZ_powder-magazine_Richmond-VA.html
A photographer captured Fort Brady's powder magazine in its prime, with men of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery (note the crossed cannon on one soldier's cap) proudly standing at its entrance. Most Civil War forts stored ammunition and volatile…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LJY_the-killing-fields_Richmond-VA.html
Approaching from the James River, Union soldiers of Stannard's division suffered their greatest loss in crossing the open ground behind you. Confederate cannon along this wall delivered mighty blasts that knocked horrible holes in the attacking fo…
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General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant hoped that his men could convert their early morning triumph at Fort Harrison into a sweeping and perhaps decisive victory. He arrived here three hours after the fort's capture to assess progress. Confederate arti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LG2_malvern-cliffs_Henrico-VA.html
General John B. Magruder sent wave after wave of Confederate infantry against the tempting target of Union artillery. In 1862, many of those attackers had to negotiate a largely treeless landscape filled with small ridges and ravines that bisected…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ELB_john-smith-explores-the-chesapeake_Richmond-VA.html
Captain John Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay in the early 1600s seeking precious metals and a passage to Asia. He traveled the James, Chickahominy, and York rivers in 1607, and led two major expeditions from Jamestown in 1608. Smith and his crew…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CSZ_a-place-of-refuge_Henrico-VA.html
The Crew house and its outbuildings soon became one of the battlefield's most recognizable features. Little is known of the family that lived here during the war other than that they did not remain inside the home during the battle. However, Union…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C65_turkey-island-mansion_Richmond-VA.html
Archeologists uncovered building foundations near this location of a house believed to have been designed by Ryland Randolph in the late 1760s. Ryland Randolph (1738-1784) was the great-grandson of Pocahontas and the grandson of William Randolph a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1940_uscts-at-dutch-gap_Richmond-VA.html
(overview)Early in 1864, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of all Federal armies, ordered advances throughout the Confederacy in the spring. On May 5, Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler landed his Army of the James on Bermuda Hundred to operate ag…
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