The Confederate Line

You are now standing beside the Sunken Road, part of a heavily used 19th-century road system that linked Washington, D.C. and Richmond. In 1862, Confederate riflemen fired from the road upon line after line of Union troops advancing across open ...

Second Line of the Confederate Defenses

This cannon

marks the location of

the Second Line of the

Confederate Defenses of Richmond

Placed in 1938 by the City of Richmond

at the request of the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society

Marker is on Monument Avenue 0.1 miles west of Roseneath Road, in the median.

Courtesy ...

Assaulting the Confederate Battle Line

"The men pressed forward, holding their fire with wonderful self control till they were in plain site of the enemy almost face to face."

As the Federal troops realigned themselves after the creek crossing, and because of the shorter distance General ...

Confederate Line Crossing the Goldsboro Road

Directly in front and to your left, Confederate Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke’s division, on loan from the Army of Northern Virginia, blocked the old Goldsboro Road (now Harper House Road) to deflect the oncoming Union advance. The division was ...

The Confederate Line

at Ogeechee Church, No. 4 1/2, CRR

On Nov. 28, 1864, Maj. Gen. H.C. Wayne, Adj. Gen. of Georgia, with a small force (CS) composed of the Corps of Cadets, Georgia Military Institute, Warthen`s Washington County militia company and Pruden`s ...

Left of the Confederate Line

Hardee’s A.C. was on the left of General J.E. Johnston’s line [CS] – Dallas - New Hope front. May 26 - June 4, 1864. Dallas was the southern-most objective of Federal forces in their flanking march around Allatoona.

During the Federal ...