Seven Days’ Battles
Gaines’s Mill
Half a mile south is Boatswain Creek. The battle that was begun at Gaines’s Mill by A. P. Hill, following Porter’s rear guard, culminated at the Union position on Boatswain Creek. There A. P. Hill and Longstreet, moving eastward, and Jackson coming from the north, converged to attack the Unionists, commanded by Porter.
Marker is on Watt House Road (Virginia Route 718), on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
