Richmond Battlefields Marker

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Near Chester in Chesterfield County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

Richmond Battlefields
Parker's Battery Trail
— Richmond National Battlefield Park 1862, 1864 —

NPS Richmond Battlefields Marker Photo, Click for full size

By Bernard Fisher, February 9, 2009

1. NPS Richmond Battlefields Marker

Inscription. McClellan’s Federals attacked in 1862, then Grant in ’64, while Joseph E. Johnston and then Robert E. Lee defended. The two major assaults on the Confederate capital fanned out in a series of battles, skirmishers and marches.

Tour the Battlefield
Among today’s suburbs remain traces of Richmond’s outer defenses-forts, rifle-pits, the fields where thousands died. Visit sites close by, or use the tour route to follow the entire sequence of attacks and counterattacks.

The Battles
Each site had its own lethal personality-troops lost in swamps, order misread, a last-minute bayonet charge. Both sides claimed some victories (with long lists of casualties). Richmond remained unconquered, but the Union Army was able to withdraw still healthy and numerous.

Parker’s Battery Trail
The ¼-mile trail winds through Confederate entrenchments and gun emplacements built during the last year of the war. Average hiking time: 15 minutes.

Erected by Richmond National Battlefield Park - National Park Service.

Location. 37° 20.994′ N, 77° 23.691′ W. Marker is near Chester, Virginia, in Chesterfield County. Marker can be reached from Ware Bottom Spring Road 0.1 miles east of Old Stage Road

By Bernard Fisher, February 9, 2009

2. Area Map

, on the right when traveling east. Click for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1801 Ware Bottom Spring Road, Chester VA 23836, United States of America.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. The Boy Company (within shouting distance of this marker); Howlett Line (within shouting distance of this marker); Remembrance (about 500 feet away, in a direct line); Parker's Battery (about 600 feet away); Battery Dantzler (approx. 0.3 miles away); a different marker also named The Howlett Line (approx. 0.3 miles away); a different marker also named Battery Dantzler (approx. 0.6 miles away); Olin Miller Dantzler (approx. 0.6 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Chester.