Remembrance
Many of the men, like Major Parker and Lieutenant J. Thompson Brown, returned to their homes in and around Richmond after the war. In 188, Lieutenant Brown, then a successful local businessman, purchased the ground here in order to preserve the area on which the battery had spent so much of its service. Prior to Brown’s death in 1921, the surviving members of Parker’s Battery erected the small granite monument before you as a token of remembrance to their fallen comrades and to their participation in the defense of their homes and capital.
Marker can be reached from Ware Bottom Spring Road 0.1 miles east of Old Stage Road, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
