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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EKU_the-bermuda-hundred-campaign-begins_Chester-VA.html
On May 4, 1864, Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler began to load 38,000 men of the Army of the James on transport ships at Newport News and Yorktown, Virginia. Their goal was a neck of land in Chesterfield County known as Bermuda Hundred. Butler was to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EKR_howlett-line-gun-position_Chester-VA.html
The ground you are standing on would have been a very dangerous place from May of 1864 until the fall of Petersburg in April of 1865. In front of you is one of the many gun positions that the Confederates used to protect the Howlett Line. This pos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1946_remembrance_Chester-VA.html
Many of the men, like Major Parker and Lieutenant J. Thompson Brown, returned to their homes in Richmond after the war. Brown became a successful local businessman, and in 188 purchased the ground here in order to preserve the area where the batte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1945_parkers-battery_Chester-VA.html
Parker's men improved this earthen redoubt, referred to as a battery, so as to better protect their guns stationed behind its walls. Supporting infantry, from the 15th and 17th Virginia regiments, filled the adjacent trenches and manned the forwar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1944_howlett-line_Chester-VA.html
These earthworks are part of the Confederate defensive position known as the Howlett Line. It was a string of interconnected redoubts and entrenchments that stretched for eight miles. The line took its name from the Howlett House located at its no…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1943_boy-company_Chester-VA.html
This prominent battery in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia often went by its nickname, "The Boy Company." Although the average battery member was 25 years old, the company had several lads between the ages of 14 and 19.
Under its dynam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1942_parkers-battery_Chester-VA.html
(left panel)Parker's BatteryA one-quarter-mile walking trail through the site offers a window into the existence of a typical Civil War artillery company on the front lines during the final year of the war. The men depended on the marssive earthen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10PJ_point-of-rocks_Chester-VA.html
Point of Rocks, named for a sandstone cliff on the Appomattox River, marked the southern end of the Union defensive line that stretched across the Bermuda Hundred peninsula. In May 1864, the Union army seized property east of the present-day park …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10PI_opposunoquonuske_Chester-VA.html
In 1607, Opposunoquonuske, sister of the Appamattuck Indian chief Coquonasum, headed an Appamattuck town on the James River at the mouth of the Appomattox. On 24 May 1607, Opposunoquonuske received a party of Englishmen in a stately fashion, great…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGLE_enon-baptist-church_Chester-VA.html
Enon Baptist Church was organized on 8 October 1849. The church was built here on a one-acre tract given by the founder, John Alexander Strachan. In May 1864, during the Civil War, Union army troops under Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler dismantled En…