Appomattox, Va. Visited: October 11, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 257 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Rural Virginia town where, on April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant, ending the American Civil War. BEAUTY (6/10) The quaint village of Appomattox Court [...]
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Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Posted in National Historical Park, tagged Civil War, Eastern Theater, Robert E Lee, Surrender, Ulysses S Grant, Virginia on October 11, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Petersburg National Battlefield
Posted in National Battlefield, tagged Battlefield, Civil War, Eastern Theater, Siege, Virginia on October 11, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Petersburg, Va. Visited: October 11, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 256 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Site of the prolonged 9½-month long, 1864-65 U.S. Grant-led campaign and siege against Robert E. Lee and the War’s last Confederate stronghold, Petersburg, Va. The April ’65 fall of Petersburg resulted in Lee’s surrender at Appomattox [...]
Richmond National Battlefield Park
Posted in National Battlefield Park, tagged Battlefield, Civil War, Eastern Theater, Virginia on October 7, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Richmond, Va. Visited: October 7, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 253 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Richmond served as the capital of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. Battlefield sites scattered throughout the city’s outskirts commemorate the Union’s attempts to take the city in both 1862 and 1864. The [...]
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park
Posted in National Military Park, tagged Battlefield, Civil War, Eastern Theater, Virginia on October 5, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Fredericksburg, Va. Visited: October 5, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 251 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Perhaps the bloodiest locale on the North American continent. The four Civil War battles commemorated by the Park took over 100,000 casualties including the War’s most famous soldier, Stonewall Jackson. The battles memorialized are the December [...]
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Posted in National Battlefield Park, tagged Bull Run, Civil War, Crowded Parks, Eastern Theater, Richard Dreyfuss, Stonewall Jackson, Traffic, Virginia, Washington D.C. on October 5, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Manassas, Va. Visited: October 5, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 249 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Site of two early Civil War battles, in July 1861 and August 1862. The Battles are also known by their Union moniker, the First and Second Battles of Bull Run. BEAUTY (4/10) Northern Virginia’s rolling landscape [...]
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