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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21AY_origins-of-4-h-in-virginia_McKenney-VA.html
F. Southall Farrar, farm demonstration agent for
Southside Virginia, organized the state's first
corn clubs for boys in 1909. Such clubs, a feature
of the nation's emerging agricultural extension
movement, had originated in the Midwest to
pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ONU_the-breakthrough_Petersburg-VA.html
Colonel Olcott and his regiment crossed the entrenchments about 350 yards to the northeast of this position (to your right) during their attack on April 2, 1865. His experience was similar to that of the Vermont troops who fought
on this ground: …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ONT_the-confederate-counterattack_Petersburg-VA.html
Once the sixth Corps completed its Breakthrough, corps commander Horatio wright ordered seven of his eight brigades to pivot southwest and move against the remaining Confederate defenses north of Hatcher's Run. Wright assigned just one brigade, Co…
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"The charge of Major-Gen. Wright's veterans under cover of the darkness and mist ... will forever live in history as one of the grandest and most sublime actions of the war."—Sgt. Newton J. Terrill, 14th New Jersey Infantry, USA
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OFZ_pamplin-historical-park_Petersburg-VA.html
Pamplin Historical Park
&
The National Museum
Of the Civil War Soldier
Base of Sculpture:
My Thoughts And Heart Are With You At Home,
But My Duty Lies Here With Cause And Comrades
Back of Sculpture:
Ron Tunison 1998 Cairo N.Y.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M7Z_advanced-repulsed-charged-again_Dinwiddie-VA.html
Union cavalrymen, under General Thomas Devin, advanced across this wooded ground twice on April 1, 1865. In the morning they tested the strength of the Southerners' defenses north of here along White Oak Road. The Union soldiers were thrown back b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M42_petersburg-battlefields_Petersburg-VA.html
From here at Fort Welch, you can see the ground over which soldiers struggled during three distinct battles. On October 2, 1864, Federals advanced across the ground to your left in an attempt to capture the key Confederate intermediate supply rout…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M2V_petersburg-battlefields_Petersburg-VA.html
"When a man is on picket at night he is monarch of all he surveys. No one living has more absolute power than he. His word is law."—Corp. Lewis Bissell, 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, USA
"I have seen veterans of three full years who ha…
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"We have set what we call Johnny catchers ... long poles set into the ground with the upper end about as high as a man's head and they are so thick that a rabbit could not crawl through."—Corp. Andrew W. Burwell, 5th Wisconsin Infantry, USA
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KPC_the-burning-of-white-oak-methodist-church_Wilsons-VA.html
Between Ford and Wilsons stations was 22 year old White Oak Methodist Church. The grounds were used as a wayside hospital for Confederate wounded until burned to the ground on June 23, 1864 by Union cavalry. Built in 1862, the hospital contained t…