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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18ZP_48th-alabama-regiment-monument_Henrico-VA.html
This monument is dedicated "To the 48th Alabama RegimentDarbytown Road-August 16, 1864Where it lost five-sixths of its men andfour-fifths of its officers, and capturedmore prisoners than its total, anddid not lose a prisoner. No men ever fought…
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In a daring attempt to attack the Federal supply base at City Point, 11 warships of the James River Squadron ventured downriver on the night of January 23, 1865. Confederate land batteries fired against Fort Brady as the darkened warships steamed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12A1_fort-brady_Henrico-VA.html
(left panel)Fort Brady 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 bat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM113K_rocketts-landing_Richmond-VA.html
East1607-1707Native Settlements and Early Colonization May 24, 1607: days after landing at Jamestown, Christopher Newport left his fellow English colonists to explore the James River. Accompanied by "five gentlemen, four marines and 14 sailors,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10PH_lee-vs-grant_Henrico-VA.html
Early in May 1864, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant hoped to end the Civil War by attacking Confederate armies simultaneously throughout the South. The commander in chief of all U.S. armies, Grant, accompanied Gen. George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac as it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10PG_1862-peninsula-campaign_Henrico-VA.html
In April 1862, Union Gen. George B. McClellan began marching his huge Army of the Potomac west up the Peninsula between the James and York Rivers from Fort Monroe to Richmond, the Confederate capital. Gen. John B. Magruder's forces delayed the Fed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10PF_defenses-of-richmond_Henrico-VA.html
Nearby stood one of the outer Confederate defensive lines that guarded Richmond during the Civil War (1861-1865). A series of earthworks and fortifications was built to protect the city and to allow the outnumbered Confederates to make maximum use…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10ID_galaxy_Richmond-VA.html
Irving L. Haggins, an African American, born in 1934, designed his one-of-a kind home in 1956. This self-taught architect and contractor built it in 1967. Inspired by modernist architect Frank Lloyd Wright's work, it combines unusual organic forms…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10HB_evergreen-cemetery_Henrico-VA.html
In 1891, Evergreen Cemetery was established as a preeminent resting place for many of Virginia's most influential African-American residents. These include Maggie L. Walker, president and founder of the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, and John Mitche…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX8M_the-grandest-sean-of-all_Henrico-VA.html
Beginning just after 4:00 pm and continuing into darkness, charging Confederate infantry made repeated assaults up these gentle slopes. In several places those attacks came within point-blank range of the Union lines. This ground is such a place. …
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