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By Mark Hilton, October 5, 2013
Russell County Judicial Center
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1Alabama (Russell County), Phenix City — Red Hill Batteries
On 14th Street at Broad Street, on the right when traveling east on 14th Street.
On April 16, 1865 the batteries of Confederate Major James Fleming Waddell of Seale, Alabama were positioned on the crest of this hill. Union forces under the command of Brevet Major General James H. Wilson were expected to launch a daylight attack . . . — Map (db m69056) HM
2Alabama (Russell County), Phenix City — Confederates Set Fire To Lower Bridge
On Dillingham Street at Brickyard Road, on the left when traveling east on Dillingham Street.
Early in the afternoon of April 16, 1865 the first major act in the Battle of Girard-Columbus took place. Union General Emory Upton sent the First Ohio cavalry charging down old Crawford Road to capture the Dillingham Bridge, then known as the lower . . . — Map (db m69060) HM
3Alabama (Russell County), Phenix City — Union Night Attack Down Summerville Road
On Summerville Road at 26th Street, on the right when traveling north on Summerville Road.
Confederate Captain Nat Clanton's battery sat astride Summerville Road on April 16, 1865 when Union forces launched a three-fisted night attack from northwest of this position. Elements of the Third and Fourth Iowa and the Tenth Missouri all passed . . . — Map (db m69069) HM
 
 
  
  
 
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