Drewry’s Bluff Battlefield
On a line that here crossed the Richmond–Petersburg turnpike, Confederate troops under command of General G.T. Beauregard attacked the Federal army of Major-General B.F. Butler on May 16, 1864 and forced its withdrawal to the Bermuda Hundred defences.
Marker is on Jefferson Davis Highway (Virginia Route 301) 0.2 miles south of Willis Road, on the left when traveling south.
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