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In May 1862, Union Gen. George B. McClellan led the Army of the Potomac up the Peninsula to the gates of Richmond. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia in June and began planning a counterattack. On June …
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"All was disorder and excitement; the field was full of men running for their very lives, and it was almost impossible to make any resistance to the tide of humanity pressing down upon us."John E. Stewart, 44th New York
General James Longstreet…
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(front)Remembers the valor and devotion ofits soldiers who participated in the battleof Gaines' Mill, Virginia - June 27, 1862
Here, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Leecontinued his attacks against Union Maj.Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of thePot…
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"Dashing up the steep bank, being within thirty yards of the enemy's works, we flew towards the breastworks, cleared them, and slaughtered the retreating devils as they scampered up the hill towards their battery." Decimus Barziza, 4th Texas Infan…
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"Yesterday evening we was in one of the hardest fought battles ever known. I never had a clear conception of the horrors of war until last night?.In going round that battlefield with a candle searching for friends I could hear on all sides the dre…
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Civil War artillery was a splendid defensive weapon, particularly when the battlefield landscape offered the gunners open fields of fire. At Gaines' Mill the woods plagued the Union artillery. Several gaps in the trees however, offered a direct li…
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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…
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"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…
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"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…
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(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…