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Battle of Hatcher's Run by markers.
By Bill Coughlin, April 24, 2007
Hatcher's Run Battlefield
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Dabney Mill Road (Virginia Route 613), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Hoping to cut Lee’s supply route into Petersburg, in February 1865 Grant ordered two army corps led by Major Generals Gouverneur K. Warren and Andrew A. Humphreys to seize the Boydton Plank Road. The Confederate corps commanded by Maj. Gen. John B. . . . — — Map (db m6486) HM |
| On Dabney Mill Road (Virginia Route 613), on the right when traveling east. |
| | By early 1865 the Federal army’s two remaining objectives along the Petersburg front were the Boydton Plank Road, an intermediate wagon supply route into the city, and the South Side Railroad, a major transportation artery from Lynchburg and the . . . — — Map (db m180606) HM |
| On Dabney Mill Road (Virginia Route 613), on the right when traveling east. |
| | On February 6, the Union forces pressed onward towards the South Side Railroad. Around 1 p.m., Major General Gouverneur K. Warren’s Fifth Corps sent out two divisions under the leadership of Major General Samuel Crawford and Major General Romeyn . . . — — Map (db m6504) HM |
| On Boydton Plank Road (U.S. 1) 0.3 miles north of White Oak Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Lee's right wing was defended by earthworks on this stream, here and to the east. These works were unsuccessfully attacked by Union forces, February 5-7, 1865. On the morning of April 2, 1865, they were stormed by Union troops. — — Map (db m180609) HM |
| On Dabney Mill Road (Virginia Route 613), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Near this site Brigadier General John Pegram was killed in the Battle of Hatcher's Run on February 6, 1865 — — Map (db m6490) HM |
May. 3, 2024