The Killing Fields

This view, taken a mile behind you, shows the vast open space in front of Marye's Heights only months after the December 1862 battle. Union troops crossed the plain between the town (in the foreground) and Marye's Heights. Some attackers ...

The Cold Harbor Killing Fields

The heaviest fighting on June 3 occurred at three separate spots outside the present boundary of the national park. You are looking northward toward one of those places. Two brigades of infantry from the Eighteenth Corps charged from right to ...

Killing Fields

“The men bent down as they pushed forward, as if trying … to breast a tempest, and the files of men went down like rows of blocks or bricks pushed over by striking against each other.”

John L. Piper, 12th New ...