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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT32_watt-farm-road_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Modern snake-rail fencing and shallow depressions carved out long ago by wagons and livestock mark the location of one of two thoroughfares that passed through the plantation. This road led from the Watt Farm to the New Bridge crossing of the Chic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT2P_intensity-of-battle_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"By the time we had gotten across, the front line, broken by our fire, frightened ? which sounded like forty thousand wild cats, had reached their second line, ? confusion, and they, panicstricken, left their works and croded to the top of the hil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT2O_battle-of-gaines-mill_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"The most terrific fire I ever witnessed, except at Gettysburg." Col. Eppa Hunton, 8th Virginia Infantry "It was one continued roar of cannons & musketry you could not hear yourself think. Such desperate fighting never graced the pages of histo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQXJ_gaines-mill_Mechanicsville-VA.html
(left panel)Visiting Richmond National Battlefield Park The concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the battlefield l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQXH_a-bloody-baptism-of-fire_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"It was the work of almost a single minute. The air was filled with sulphurous smoke, and the shrieks and howls of more than two hundred and fifty mangled men rose above the yells of triumphant rebels and the roar of their musketry."Theodore F. Va…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQXG_cold-harbor_Mechanicsville-VA.html
(left panel)Visiting Richmond National Battlefield ParkThe concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the battlefield lands…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQXD_lees-first-strike_Mechanicsville-VA.html
The Confederate plan did not call for an attack against the Union position along Beaver Dam Creek. Instead, a series of manuevers would make the Union defenses here untenable. But poor communication and unexpected obstacles caused delays. Lee felt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMORX_holding-the-high-ground_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Today's landscape makes it difficult to appreciate the many strengths of the Union position. The charging Confederates faced more obstacles than they could overcome: open fields, steep slopes, a broad and swampy creek, Union infantry using a millr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMORV_beaver-dam-creek_Mechanicsville-VA.html
(left panel)Visiting Richmond National Battlefield ParkThe concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the battlefield lands…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNES_rural-plains_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Rural Plains, home of the Shelton family for nearly three centuries, stands on the northern bank of Totopotomoy Creek. Eighteen-year-old Patrick Henry married Sarah Shelton in 1754. Family tradition places the wedding ceremony in the first floor p…
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