Seven Days' Battles
Jackson's March to the Battefields
Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and his troops passed through this intersection on 27 June 1862, having arrived from the Shenandoah Valley. Jackson's troops united with Gen. Robert E. Lee's forces just south of here at Walnut Grove Church that morning. Later in the day Lee's and Jackson's combined forces and successfully assaulted the Union V Corps at the Battle of Gaines's Mill.
Marker is on Lee Davis Road (State Highway 156) 0.1 miles south of Mechanicsville Turnpike (U.S. 360), on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
