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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3K7_pamplin-historical-park-the-national-museum-of-the-civil-war-soldier_Petersburg-VA.html
Here, the Union's Sixth Army Corps broke through the Confederate line defending Petersburg, causing a series of actions which eventually led to the evacuation of the city by Lee's army that evening. Nearby, Confederate General A.P. Hill was killed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3DJ_fort-davis_Petersburg-VA.html
After four days of unsuccessful trying to capture Petersburg by direct assault on June 15-18, 1864, Gen. U.S. Grant's Union army began siege operations against the city. Grant's immediate objective was to cut one of Gen. Robert E. Lee's supply rou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X2_fort-hays_Petersburg-VA.html
The land on which Fort Hays is built was fought over on June 22, 1864, when the Union army first attempted to cut one of Lee's vital rail supply lines, the Petersburg Railroad (usually called the Weldon Railroad) located about three miles west. Wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SP_a-p-hill-memorial_Petersburg-VA.html
To the memory of A.P. Hill, Lt - Gen CSAHe was killed about 600 yards northwardly from this marker, being shot by a small band of stragglers from the Federal lines on the morning of April 2nd, 1865.Erected by A.P. Hill Camp Sons of Confederate Vet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SO_where-hill-fell_Petersburg-VA.html
In the field a short distance north of this road, the confederate General A.P. Hill was killed, April 2, 1865. Hill, not knowing that Lee's lines had been broken, rode into a party of Union soldiers advancing on Petersburg.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SN_south-side-station_Petersburg-VA.html
This original South Side Railroad station, the oldest such building in the state, was built around 1854 when the line was completed from Petersburg westward to Lynchburg, a distance of 123 miles. An express train could run this distance in five ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SM_south-side-station_Petersburg-VA.html
Begin the 26-stop auto driving tour of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Retreat from Petersburg to Appomattox at this point. The tour covers over 100 miles and takes approximately four to five hours to complete. A map can be obtained at the nearby Visitors Ce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN5_early-english-exploration_Petersburg-VA.html
In 1650 Fort Henry, now Petersburg, marked the western and southern extent of English settlement in, and knowledge of, Virginia. On 27 Aug. 1650, Edward Bland, merchant and land speculator, and Abraham Wood, frontier militia commander, left Fort H…