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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8DG_caroline-county-courthouse_Bowling-Green-VA.html
On May 21, 1864, Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's Second Corps passed through Bowling Green. Union soldiers broke into stores, looted homes and freed prisoners from the jail. Documents from the ransacked courthouse littered the streets.A few bold souls …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6UN_dickinsons-mill_Ruther-Glen-VA.html
Lee camped here, on May 21, 1864, on his way to the North Anna to oppose Grant moving southward. Ewell's and Longstreet's corps rested here that night.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6UM_long-creek-action_Ruther-Glen-VA.html
The earthworks in the angle between this stream and the North Anna River, held by a small Confederate force, were taken by by Grant's troops moving southward on May 23, 1864. The Unionists then advanced to the river, on the south side of which was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5V8_clark-family-farm_Ruther-Glen-VA.html
In 1754, John and Ann Rogers Clark, with their sons Jonathan and George Rogers, moved from Albemarle County to a farm four miles west. There were born Ann, John, Richard, Edmund, Lucy, Elizabeth, William and Frances. During the Revolutionary War, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5V7_maneuvering-to-the-north-anna-river_Ruther-Glen-VA.html
Unable to defeat Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederates during the Spotsylvania Courthouse battles 8-19 May 1864, Union commander Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's forces maneuvered east and south forcing Lee to abandon his entrenched position. The Confedera…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5V6_golansville-quaker-meetinghouse_Ruther-Glen-VA.html
Pioneers in asserting the right to religious freedom, the Caroline Friends (Quakers) held their first meeting nearby on 12 March 1739 together with their partner, Cedar Creek Friends Meeting of Hanover County. At a meeting on 9 May 1767, members i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM37W_gabriels-rebellion_Hanover-VA.html
On 24 Aug. 1800, slave Ben Woolfolk met with other slaves at nearby Littlepage's Bridge to recruit individuals for an insurrection planned for 30 Aug. The insurgents led by Gabriel, a slave owned by Thomas Henry Prosser of Henrico County, intended…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM37Q_fairfield-plantation_Woodford-VA.html
The farm office across the lawn is all that remains of the once-sprawling plantation called "Fairfield." Thomas Coleman Chandler purchased Fairfield Plantation in 1845. For the next 17 years it prospered and evolved - largely at the hands of the d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2LW_bethel-church_Woodford-VA.html
Lee vs. Grant - The 1864 Campaign
"At the church?the 9th Corps was marching past, and Burnside was sitting, like a comfortable abbot, in one of the pews, surrounded by his buckish staff whose appearance is the reverse of clerical." - Theodore L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FM_star-hotel_Bowling-Green-VA.html
Built approximately 1820, the Star Hotel was one of two taverns serving Bowling Green. During the Civil War, it was operated by the Henry Gouldman family, and became a notorious Confederate spy headquarters and safe haven to those who aided Lincol…