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Second Deep Bottom battlefield by markers.
By Bill Coughlin, April 25, 2007
Deep Bottom Landing - A Vital Link
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Deep Bottom Road, on the left. Reported permanently removed. |
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After the Battle of Cold Harbor in June 1864, Grant and Lee shifted their armies to Petersburg; but Grant did not wish to abandon the Richmond front entirely. He had Gen. Benjamin Butler position a small force from his Army of the James here at . . . — — Map (db m193868) HM |
| On Darbytown Road at Fussells Ridge Drive, on the right when traveling east on Darbytown Road. |
| | About noon on 16 Aug. 1864, Union Brig. Gen. Alfred H. Terry, with almost 5,000 men in four brigades, attacked the Confederate line over this ground. In a brief yet vicious struggle, Terry's men broke through 400 yards west of here. During the . . . — — Map (db m16179) HM |
| On Darbytown Road, 0.1 miles east of Yahley Mill Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | On 16 Aug. 1864, Federal infantry stormed Confederate earthworks nearby, in the Second Battle of Deep Bottom. The 39th Illinois helped lead the assault. Pvt. Henry M. Hardenbergh, of Bremen Township, the color bearer, served in Co. G, called the . . . — — Map (db m185581) HM |
| On Charles City Road, 0.2 miles west of Yahley Mill Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | On 16 August 1864 Confederate Brig. Gen. John R. Chambliss, Jr., was killed near here attempting to evade capture during the Second Battle of Deep Bottom. As troops of the 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry removed his epaulets, sash, and saber, Union Brig. . . . — — Map (db m18503) HM |
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