Historical Marker Series

Battlefield Trails - Civil War

Page 3 of 7 — Showing results 21 to 30 of 64
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM3D6_battle-of-cedar-creek_Middletown-VA.html
October 19, 1864. General Philip Sheridan defeated General Jubal Early here for the third time in 30 days. Sheridan's pursuit of Confederates from Fisher's Hill halted at Mount Crawford. On his return he encamped his three corps in this immediate area. Earl…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM3DW_bentonville_Four-Oaks-NC.html
This memorial marks the battlefield of Bentonville where, on March 19-21, 1865, General Joseph E. Johnston, with about 15,000 Confederate troops, principally from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, checked the advan…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM3K7_pamplin-historical-park-the-national-museum-of-the-civil-war-soldier_Petersburg-VA.html
Here, the Union's Sixth Army Corps broke through the Confederate line defending Petersburg, causing a series of actions which eventually led to the evacuation of the city by Lee's army that evening. Nearby, Confederate General A.P. Hill was killed in the da…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM3O2_battle-of-five-forks_Church-Rd-VA.html
Here at Five Forks on April 1, 1865 10,000 Confederates, commanded by General Pickett, were overwhelmed by about 50,000 Federal troops, led by General Sheridan, thereby opening the way to the Southside Railroad making further defense of Petersburg and Richm…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM3VD_battle-of-hatchers-run_Petersburg-VA.html
Hoping to cut Lee's supply route into Petersburg, in February 1865 Grant ordered two army corps led by Major Generals Gouverneur K. Warren and Andrew A. Humphreys to seize the Boydton Plank Road. The Confederate corps commanded by Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon s…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4JR_battle-of-the-wilderness_Locust-Grove-VA.html
The Armies The Army of the PotomacThroughout the winter of 1863-1864, the armies rested and refitted on opposites sides of the Rapidan River. The ranks of the Union army swelled with thousands of new draftees and recruits - soldiers whose commitment to t…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4L0_battle-of-rivers-bridge_Ehrhardt-SC.html
Invasion!In January 1865, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's army of 60,000 Union soldiers invaded South Carolina. Its goals: to link up with Ulysses S. Grant's forces opposing Robert E. Lee's Confederates in Virginia and destroy the South's ability and will t…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM5A0_fort-mcallister_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Situated at Genesis Point, 10 miles east on the right bank of the Great Ogeechee River below the "lost town" of Hardwick, this fort was the right of the exterior line designed for the defense of Savannah. It denied the use of the river to Union vessels, pro…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM5H0_kennesaw-battlefield_Marietta-GA.html
One of the two abortive attempts to break Johnson's line, * June 27, 1864, was made in this area by 3 Federal brigades. Deployed on the ridge W. of the stream & astride Burnt Hickory Rd., they moved E. toward the Spur of the mountain, which was the center o…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM65H_malvern-hill_Richmond-VA.html
Nearby stood the Malvern Hill manor house built for Thomas Cocke in the 17th century. The Marquis de Lafayette camped here in July-August 1781, and elements of the Virginia militia encamped nearby during the War of 1812. During the Civil War, 1 July 1862, G…
PAGE 3 OF 7