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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAS1_in-reserve_Mechanicsville-VA.html
You are standing among entrenchments built by soldiers of the Union Eighteenth Corps less than ? mile from the front lines. At Cold Harbor regiments typically rotated out of the front lines every other day. This explains the many layers of reserve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMARZ_union-earth-works_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Thousands of Union soldiers lived in these fortifications for eleven long days in 1864. The piles of freshly shoveled dirt sheltered the men from the scorching June sun while shielding them from enemy missiles. The lengthy halt at Cold Harbor allo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAPG_the-federal-collapse_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"All was disorder and excitement; the field was full of me running for their very lives, and it was almost impossible to make any resistance to the tide of humanity pressing down upon us?.It seemed as though the air was full of bullet, whistling a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAPF_the-cavalry-charge_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"In as short while we felt the ground begin to tremble like an earthquake and heard a noise like the rumbling of distant thunder. It was a regiment of United States cavalry charging us?.When they were within about forty yards of us, we poured a vo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAPE_mistaken-identity_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"It was now sun down and the air was dense with smoke, so that we were realty not certain whether the column before us were friends or enemies?.Their banner was furled, and we could not get any clue from that?.Just at this time Colonel Jenkins, in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAPD_union-rifle-pits_Mechanicsville-VA.html
These well-preserved rifle pits probably mark the far end of the Union line. The 16th Michigan Infantry or 44th New York Infantry likely built them on the morning of the battle to guard the western flank of the army. Although some Federal soldiers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAPC_wilcoxs-brigade-csa_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"A private by the name of Jones?.seized the colors, his right arm was soon broken, he then held it with his left hand, and he was soon shot through both legs no broken bones, and then his left arm was wounded and the colors fell, were picked up an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAPB_morells-division-usa_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"The rebels rushed down the hill in line of battle, but it wasn't quite so easy rushing across a swamp, waist deep in thick mud, and as they tried it we tried Sharp's rifles at eight rods, firing as fast as we could put in cartridges, the distance…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAPA_picketts-brigade-csa_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"As soon as this advancing brigade reached the summit of the hill it was met by a storm of shot and shell I never saw exceeded except in the famous charge of Pickett's men at Gettysburg."Col. Eppa Hunton8th Virginia Infantry "On they went, down…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAP9_hoods-attack_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Fitz John Porter's troop had repulsed Confederate attacks throughout the afternoon. With daylight waning, Lee turned to John Bell Hood to spearhead the final assault. Personally leading the 4th Texas and the 18th Georgia, General Hood instructed h…
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