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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0N_wasted-valor_Petersburg-VA.html
On the plain below you, the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery enacted one of the tragic dramas of the Civil War.
"The field became a burning, seething, crashing, hissing hell, in which human courage, flesh and bone were struggling with an impossibility…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0M_first-maine-heavy-artillery-monument_Petersburg-VA.html
(front)Maine.First Heavy Artilleryin memory of604 brave members who fellcharging hereJune 18, 1864
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(rear)Members of theFirst Maine Heavy Artillerywho were here mortally woundedJune 18, 1864...
Members of theFirs…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0L_hare-house-site_Petersburg-VA.html
About this house swirled the tide of battle on June 18, 1864, and during "Lee's Last Grand Offensive," March 25, 1865.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0K_colquitts-salient-trail_Petersburg-VA.html
The Colquitt's Salient loop trail will lead you over ground involved with two of the most dramatic events of the Siege of Petersburg.
On the walk to Colquitt's Salient, you will shadow the advance of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery during its tra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0J_prince-george-court-house-road_Petersburg-VA.html
This old road was used by both Confederate and Union Armies in the fighting around Petersburg.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTI_pocahontas_Petersburg-VA.html
Positions in the Battle of PetersburgOn 25 April 1781, this part of the community of Pocahontas served as the rear guard staging area for American Major General Frederick von Steuben's Virginia militia in their defense of Petersburg against the in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTG_the-battle-at-the-bridge_Petersburg-VA.html
25 April 1781In the late afternoon and evening of 24 April 1781, Virginia militia regiments of Brigadier General Peter Muhlenberg's Corps of about 1,000 men marched into Petersburg in order to counter an expected attack by the invading 2,500 man B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHA4_the-first-methodist-meeting-house_Petersburg-VA.html
The first Methodist Meeting House in Petersburg was a theatre on West Old Street near the river rented by Gressett Davis. Robert Williams, a follower of John Wesley, came to Petersburg to preach in 1773 at the invitation of Davis and Nathaniel You…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHA2_the-peabody-williams-school_Petersburg-VA.html
Disrupted by the convulsions of the First World War, efforts to replace the increasingly inadequate Peabody School on Fillmore Street stretched out from 1913 until 1920, when the new Peabody-Williams School opened on Jones Street. Charles Robinson…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHA1_earliest-known-public-high-school-for-african-americans-in-virginia_Petersburg-VA.html
Petersburg established a public school system in 1868, two years before the state's mandate. Colored Elementary School #1 was conducted in the old church building of the African Baptist Church, which stood to your left. The building had been moved…