Seven Days Battles
Gaines’s Mill
On this hill, facing north, Sykes’s division was posted in the afternoon of June 27, 1862, holding the eastern end of the Union line. Here Jackson attacked, while to the west A. P. Hill and Longstreet renewed their assaults. When the Union line was broken on their left, Sykes’s regulars fell back to the river still fighting.
Marker is on Cold Harbor Road (Virginia Route 156), on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
