Where Dahlgren Died

Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, Federal officer, met death in the early morning, March 2, 1864, three hundred yards to the north. After the raid on Richmond, his force bivouaced here and, in breaking camp he fell to the fire of Confederate detachments and Home Defense forces who had gathered during the night.

Marker is at the intersection of Bunker Hill Road and Stevensville Road, on the left when traveling east on Bunker Hill Road.

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