The Battle of Buffington Island

July 19, 1863

Morgan's Cavalry Division - Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan

Duke's Brigade - Col. Basil Duke

2nd Kentucky Cavalry (Maj. Thomas Webber)

5th Kentucky Cavalry (Col. D. Howard Smith)

6th Kentucky Cavalry (Lt. Col. John Warren Grisby)

9th Tennessee Cavalry (Lt. Col. William W. ...

Fighting at the Totopotomoy

Polly Hundley’s Corner

This intersection was known as Polly Hundley’s Corner during the Civil War. The roads led to Atlee’s Station, the Pamunkey River, Mechanicsville and Hanover Courthouse. A sign here announced that it was only seven miles to Richmond and ...

The Fighting Ends in Stalemate

Wilderness Exhibit Shelter

Stalemate

Two days of bitter fighting had left the bleak Wilderness landscape charred and smoking from fire. Corpses littered the contested ground, now scarred by miles of earth-and-log entrenchments. Unwilling to attack Lee's strong position, Grant ordered a night ...

Battle of the Wilderness

Wilderness Exhibit Shelter

The Armies

The Army of the Potomac

Throughout 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 ...

Gordon's Attack Falters

Union reinforcements rushed to the sound of fighting as twilight turned to darkness in these gloomy woods. The Confederates lost direction and momentum in the smoky gloaming, and eventually the firing died away. Gordon's attack had achieved only a local, ...

Buckeye Station

One half mile north of this monument the home of Gen. Nathaniel Massie, founder of Manchester in 1791, first settlement in the Virginia Military District.

Residence of Charles Willing Byrd, Secretary and Acting Governor, Northwest Territory and first United States District ...

Gordon's Flank Attack

The right flank of the Union line rested here in the early evening of May 6. Two Union brigades occupied this area with the benefit of neither strong works nor substantial artillery support. Suddenly, the Rebel yell echoed through the ...

Here Stood The State House

Built 1786-1790

James Hoban Architect

Burned By Sherman's Troops

February 17, 1865

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Assembly Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Patriots of New Haven Memorial

This Memorial

Commemorates

The Determined Resistance

Near This Spot

Of The Patriots of New Haven

Against The British Invasion

Under Maj. Gen. Tryon of New York

July 5, 1779

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Pope Street, on the right when traveling south. ...

John Gordon Proposes a Flank Attack

On the morning of May 6, Confederate General John B. Gordon occupied the far Confederate left, in this vicinity, with his brigade of Georgians. Gordon reconnoitered to his left and front and discovered the Union right flank to be vulnerable ...