Virginia Civil War Trails
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"The advance was irresistible... in a few minutes the brigade occupied the crest of the hill."-Union brigade commander Col. Sidney Burbank
You now stand at the farthest point of the Union infantry advance on May 1. From here, Federal troops poured a murd…
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The enemy were in force in my immediate front... the country was favorable for a flank attack."- Gen. Lafayette McLaws
"Flanked!" one of the most feared words in any army. It meant that the enemy positioned upon the end of your line could fire down its l…
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"We were in a perfect jungle of rank vines and undergrowth."- Col. A. J. McBride, 10th Georgia Infantry, CSA
Few Civil War sites evoke such indelible, mental images as the Wilderness. Densely forested and dark, fighting in the Wilderness of Spotsylvania …
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"If possible before the battle I will try to be better posted about the rebble armey."- Local spy Isaac Silver
Both armies employed soldiers as spies or scouts, but some of the most valuable information came from local civilians. The Chancellorsville Cam…
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"The road, the woods, and fields on either side, over which the enemy retired, were strewn with knapsacks, blankets, overcoats, and many other valuable articles."- Gen. Paul Semmes, CSA
Union Gen. George Sykes, simultaneously flanked out of his position …
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Union forces assembled along this ridge while Confederate troops prepared on the opposite slope. Federal forces crossed Little Sailor's Creek for a fierce battle which compelled many Southerners to surrender. The house served as a hospital for both armies.
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Here, around the home of James S. Lockett, desperate fighting occurred near sundown on April 6, 1865, when the Union corps commanded by Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys almost overwhelmed Gen. John B. Gordon's Confederate corps. The house, just across the road, sti…
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While Confederate troops were attempting to cross Sailor's Creek on the bridges below, the fighting between the two forces began here and continued into the bottomlands. After the battle, James Lockett's bullet-ridden house was then pressed into service as …
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Three times during the Civil War, Star Fort played a major role in the defense of Winchester. Union Gen. Robert H. Milroy's troops began constructing the fort in January 1863 on the site of artillery emplacements Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jacks…
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Having successfully driven Gen. Nathaniel Bank's Union army from the Shenadoah Valley in late May 1862, Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's "foot cavalry" had little time to reset. While one Union army under Gen. John C. Fr?mont was bearing down from the n…