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FREDERICKSBURG ★ 1864 CAMPAIGN SITES ★ R A Chatham ★ Gordonsville – Longstreet’s camp. Home to Exchange Union supply wagons P (National Park P Headquarters) Hotel Civil War Museum. crossed the Rapidan River A ★ Montpelier – Site of Confederate winter camps, 1863–1864. as Federal troops fought H

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to 1864 . 3 C ST. LIAM K ★ Germanna Ford – Union soldiers crossed here May 4, 1864, BURNSIDE WIL starting the Overland Campaign. (Union) To D.C., ★ Fredericksburg Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter – National Park SEDGWICK Visitor Center 34 miles site at the scene of heavy fighting May 5-6, 1864. (Union)

★ Brandy Station R Todd’s Tavern – Union and Confederate cavalry clashed (Remington, 11 miles)

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I O I N A L E ★ C I Spotsylvania Battlefield – National Park tour reviews S N E Graffiti T S E .

. R 674 P D S the fighting of May 8-21, 1864. LV S House E B A T T . 663 ET N AY O LAF N A ★ Spotsylvania Court House Historic District – CULPEPE R E S q City Dock – T T u (Multiple Sites) . Battle shattered the village in 1864. Walking tours available. Fredericksburg Battlefield i O

HANCOCK Kelly ’s Ford a Crossing M ★ Harris Farm – Site of last engagement of Spotsylvania 15 (Union) Visitor Center C r 29 e fighting, May 19, 1864.. 1 ek A 1864 Overland Campaign Historic Route ★ Zion Methodist Church – Spotsylvania landmark. 612 C Confederate Troop Movements from Camps turned to Massaponax here in May 1864. Cedar Mountain R

Battlefield WARREN 3 I ★ (Union) Massaponax Church – Site of photographs showing V S T AFFO RD 630 Union Troop Movements from Camps Federal high command planning campaign. 29 E ) 95 R ★ Plantations on Guinea Station Road – Antebellum R R 1864 Overland Campaign Site R C ULP EP ER A homes line route of Union march in May 1864. 629 a R P i A Aquia r Other Civil War Trails Site ★ Guinea Station – Site of ’s death 522 P P Landing James City 15 d I D A n Potomac in 1863 is on Union march route a year later. Battlefield A R 17 Hartwood a N E H Creek 608 Other Civil War Site x I V Church ★ Bethel Church – Gens. Grant, Meade, and Burnside had MADISO N e R A Bridge l N Po ree headquarters here, May 22-23, 1864. A Germanna N toma C k National, State or County Park O c & Ford 1 ★ EWELL C K Bowling Green – Union soldiers broke into stores, freed 611 (Confederate) 3 e Mine 608 Information or Welcome Center prisoners, and looted the town May 21, 1864, during march g R n Run I 626 to the . MA D ISO N a 610 V r Wilderness Battlefield E Restrooms Handicap Accessible O R ★ Milford Station – Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac ( Exhibit Shelter Chancellorsville 607 Railroad station. Site of skirmish prior to North Anna, White Oak 231 Battlefield Church/Museum May 20, 1864. O RANGE First Day at 15 Chancellorville 218 ★ Carmel Church – Union army reunited here in preparation HILL-EWELL DR. FREDE RICKSBURG 621 for attacks at the North Anna River. Locust Grove Rochelle 3 20 Widow Tapp 3 ★ Ox Ford Battlefield (North Anna River) – Confederates (Jack’s Shop) Farm 29 617 1 turned back Union attacks May 24-25, 1864. Hanover County Salem Church 17 Slaughter Pen Farm One of a series of Parker’s Store park. Tour information for North Anna Battlefield available. 621 photographs by 612 Timothy O’Sullivan • Hanover Junction – Critical railroad junction Lee hoped Montpelier Verdiersville Todd’s Tavern of a Union High to protect by defending the North Anna line. (Winter Camps) Fredericksburg Pelham Harris command meeting ★ Mangohick Church – Elements of the Union army ORANG E Spotsylvania Battlefield Monument HILL 608 Farm at Massaponax marched past here after the North Anna battle. (Confederate) 613 Battlefield

. 17 Church. U.S. Grant D ★ Ashland – Lee marched his troops through here on the way Visitor Center 522 R 208 704 PIN Spotsylvania is leaning over to Cold Harbor. 20 AR TH 608 A Visitor Center a church pew ★ 651 C Massaponax Nelson’s Crossing – Union army II and VI Corps crossed Spotsylvania Court House Church conferring with the River here. SP O TSY LVANIA Historic District his commanders. ★ 608 Haw’s Shop/Enon Church – Fierce cavalry battle fought 231 15 here May 28, 1864. 20 Zion Methodist Church Plantations on Guinea Station/ R A ★ 612 Stonewall P P C K R Totopotomoy Creek – Site of fighting May 28-June 1, 1864. Guinea Station Road 607 A H A N N O I Jackson Shrine V E ★ Yellow Tavern – Site of the mortal wounding of Confederate R 33 LONGSTREET 208 P O Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, May 11, 1864. (Confederate) R I 2 651 V ★ Polegreen Church – Church destroyed by artillery 669 E R 609 June 1, 1864, prior to Cold Harbor. GORDONSVILL E 606 ★ Meadow Bridge – Union cavalry were nearly trapped after Exchange , May 1864. Hotel 626 ★ Battlefield at Cold Harbor – A National Park visitor 620 632 center and Hanover County park commemorates and inter - 669 prets the battles fought -, 1864. 15 ★ Trevilian Station – Cavalry fought here June 11-12, 1864, 33 638 301 as Grant began infantry move. (Multiple Trails sites.) 613 ★ Long Bridge – Union troops crossed Bethel Church 605 Trevilian Station BOWLIN G GRE EN here after disengaging at Cold Harbor. (Multiple Sites) ★ 95 Court House Complex Wilcox’s Landing – Site of main Union army 22 and Old Star Hotel crossing, this one via boat. Now a Charles City County park. 207 (No modern bridge.) 669 1 ★ LOUISA 722 North Bend – Union cavalry headquarters, June 1864. Confederate cavalry Flowerdew Hundred – Parts of Union army crossed to Milford • Station commander J.E.B. this site on pontoon bridge over James River.6 H4 istorical park. LO U IS A 676 Stuart (inset) was (Waynesboro, 38 miles) (No modern bridge.) N O CA ROLINE mortally wounded ★ 208 R Prince George Court House – Large Federal cavalry T 207 during the Battle 33 H M camp located here. of Yellow Tavern, A A ★ Baylor’s Farm – African American Union troops involved N T May 11, 1864. To Charlottesville N in fighting here June 15, 1864. A R I V E T (see inset below) 250 R A ★ Port Walthall Junction – Two actions here in May 1864 P O to control railroad. Confederate soldiers beg Lee to ( V i r 656 g i n 655 N ★ Swift Creek – Union Gen. Butler repulsed an effort to 29 return to the rear as fighting grows i a I C R disrupt Confederate supply lines, May 9, 1864. 522 intense in The Wilderness. e n t r a l R R ) I 20 Carmel 301 V E R ★ Ellerslie – Plantation was a key Confederate site during Rio Hill Church Swift Creek fighting. 684 654 North Anna 2 ★ 250 Battlefield Par k Petersburg National Battlefield – Initial Union assaults Confederate on Petersburg defenses, June 15, 1864. Statues 652 ★ Cavalry Assault – Site of Union cavalry assault against 64 250 Petersburg, June 9, 1864. CHARLOTTESVILLE Ox Ford Battlefield Hanover Junction 602 ★ RELATED CIVIL WAR SITES ★ 64

• Kelly’s Ford – Confederate Maj. John Pelham killed during 30 651 cavalry battle here March 17, 1863. 64 H ANO VE R • Brandy Station Battlefield – Largest cavalry battle on the North American continent, June 9, 1863. 29

• Graffiti House – Union and Confederate soldiers covered 638 plaster walls with still-visible graffiti, 1863–1864. Mangohick • Cedar Mountain Battlefield – Stonewall Jackson led 522 Church Confederates in battle here August 9, 1862. 54 604 • James City Battlefield – Day-long cavalry battle here ALBEMARLE Hanover Oct. 10, 1863. ASHL AND Tavern • Rochelle ( Jack’s Shop) – J.E.B. Stuart was almost 615 54 cornered but escaped during this Sept. 22, 1863 battle. ) 20 33 R • Aquia Landing – Important Union supply base for R 605 campaigns in 1862-1864. c a Potomac Creek Bridge – Union supply trains crossed m • o 95 360 here daily on a “cornstalk and beanpole” bridge. t Nelson’s Charles L. Chandler o 1 Crossing KI NG • White Oak Church/Museum – Site of Union camp in win - rallying the 57th Infantry P 301 ter of 1862. Museum with related artifacts. at Ox Ford, May 24, 1864. & 615 605 g WILL IA M

r Enon Church Fredericksburg Visitor Center – Information here about 2 Haw’s Shop • u U N 30 the city’s Civil War history. b 606 k M K s e 6 Yellow Tavern e A E Y R k r Totopotomoy C P I • City Dock – Union infantry crossed here on a pon toon The first Union attacks on c (J.E.B. Stuart

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R • Chancellorsville Battlefield Visitor Center – National ( Cold Harbor Park visitor center on site of Stonewall Jackson’s wounding 156 Old Cold e r R 628 i v R during May 1863 battle. Harbor R ) Beaver Crossroads Dam Cold Harbor k First Day at Chancellorsville – Civil War Trust walking o r • ( Creek Hanover Park Y R i c h m o n 1 & trail with markers to tell the story of the first day’s actions. d & a n v i l l e 301 Gaines‘ 156 630 d D R 195 360 o n Tunstall R Dabbs House Mill m • Salem Church – Scene of May 3-4, 1863, fighting during ) Dispatch h Station Museum i c the Chancellorsville Campaign. J A M E S R V E R Station ( R I 33 156 613 • Hartwood Presbyterian Church – Union troops burned 249 MEADO Savage’s interior woodwork for firewood. 147 W RD. Station (, 60 miles) Mine Run – Civil War Trust walking trail with markers to • 161 640 tell the story of only battle in this aborted Union campaign, 60 RICHMON D 76 Richmond 156 64 Nov. 1863. 64 Seven Pines 60 665 . 360 International T S 1 60 RICHMON D D (Sandston Library)

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Historical . e Dabbs House Museum – Lee’s first headquarters (June 1862) E. 614 • VE AV 295 Society GRO r as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. s Dutch Gap at Citie Confederate Navy Yard b Museum of the Confederacy – Largest collection of Con - Richmond National u of Henricus Park CH ARLES CIT Y • Confederate IN ST. R and Rocketts Landing MA E Chesterfield r Chester 5 federate artifacts housed in a modern museum. Confederate Battlefield Park g Memorial Chapel RY ST. 195 V Battery 156 CA I Courthouse Station 615 is restored and open for tours. E. R R Dantzler Piney OD AV ELLWO S R Charles City Grove Virginia Historical Society – Houses the “Four Seasons E 10 ) Parker’s Battery • Hollywood M Bermuda Court House A of the Confederacy” murals and world’s largest collection of Cemetery J Ware Bottom Church Hundred Shirley 1 Fort Wead Sherwood Forest Confederate-made weapons. 301 CHESTE RFI ELD Battlefield Park Landing Wilcox’s Landing 360 95 623 Confederate Memorial Chapel – One of two surviving Howlett Line Park 10 618 5 • Harrison ’s Evelynton North Bend buildings of R.E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Soldiers’ Bermuda Hundred Landing – Union troops under Point of City Point Landing • Port Walthall Unit/PNB Home, a refuge for indigent veterans. 60 Rocks Gen. landed here May 5, 1864. Belle Junction J A M E S R I V E R Richmond National Battlefield Park Visitor Center – Isle 36 156 • • City Point Unit – Union supply depot and U.S. Grant’s Battle of Explore Richmond’s battlefields with exhibits, film, and 10 headquarters during 1864-1865 . Swift Creek Ellerslie HOP EWEL L 156 156 ranger assistance. • Depot Field Hospital (site) – Up to 10,000 Union Fort ) Flowerdew Dunlop R No modern crossing. Site of 1864 pontoon • Belle Isle – Site of notorious Civil War prison camp holding R Baylor ’s Farm 106 patients treated in largest City Point hospital. THE FINAL CAM PAIGN S Clifton Hundred bridge, and ferry crossing. Union enlisted men. Now a city park. Station 95 o i n t Hopewell 639 • Weston Manor – Antebellum structure provides setting P Modern roads connecting historic route. Confederate Navy Yard and Rocketts Landing – y Visitor Center • for interpretation of Civil War civilian life. 1 Violet t Site of busy deepwater port and ironclad ship-building PETERSB URG HOPEWELL City Point 301 i 36 630 Union Fort – Union fortification in Hopewell city park 95 10 Unit/PNB Bank ( C 156 facility on the James River. • South Sid e 295 Beefsteak Raid protected perimeter of City Point supply base. 1 Weston Plantation – 301 Station Petersburg • Libby Prison (site) – Waterfront warehouse became Weston Manor 106 609 a prison for Union officers. • Beef Steak Raid – Confederate cavalry captured 2,486 Depot Field National 10 36 Petersburg . 634 ST Battlefield steers meant to feed Union troops, September 1864. Hospital X Union Fort) ER ST. National O Prince George Savage’s Station – Union rear guard fought here while South Side Station RIV T. TT R 460 N A • K S M R N Battlefield . O A Y Court House Petersburg National Battlefield – Site of opposing lines B 6 P A • 2 P T W Gen. George McClellan withdrew his army to the James 1 A D e 36 H 85 1 ESTON S A W O T during siege lasting 9 ⁄2 months. A R d B i River, June 29, 1862. APPOMATTOX RLAINVE ER A V T

E S S V A t h . E o u Centre Hill E R ( S Violet Bank – Lee’s headquarters June–October 1864 Petersburg Blandford . A 301 • AY ND • Seven Pines – Scene of heavy fighting, May 31, 1862. BROADW O Campbell ’s Church WEST LP PR IN CE G EOR GE during siege. Visitor Center H RD • Darbytown Road – Confederate offensive to reclaim Bridge S T. TON PETERSB URG Dunlop Station – Vital rail junction for Confederate HING ( 460 defense line, October 9, 1864. • WAS CR N AT 36 o supplies and evacuation, 1864–1865. ER T. R 10 r 1 HE S First Battle D f o • Piney Grove – Farmstead depicting domestic life during WYT . . 156 460 S R l D k Petersburg Batteries – Three Confederate batteries Y of Petersburg L • C IL the war. . Wallace A H &

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(now in city park) built to defend city. V R O U P House A H R C e – Union defense here held in last of the H • E N t HAM RD T O S A . e Blandford Church – Situated just behind the Confederate GR 5 T T S • 1 r Seven Days’ Battles, , 1862. . IN . s W Mileage Scale D 460 b lines and used as a temporary field hospital after the Battle R 156 u X r Drewry’s Bluff – Confederate guns above the James turned A g • F of the Crater. Confederate cemetery adjacent. I L R back Federal gunboats, May 15, 1862. A 295 R H 95 )

Fort Davis – Built as result of Union capture of Jerusalem ) • 301 95 36 • Fort Stevens – Scene of fighting May 14 –16, 1864, during R Plank Road and is one of the largest forts surrounding B A R Bermuda Hundred campaign. Y L Petersburg. O R 85 A n ’ S R . L o Deep Bottom – James River crossing used by Union forces E I

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ay 4, 1864 – the Union Army The battered Confederate army again of the Potomac crossed turned the Northerners back, but Grant the Rapidan River west of moved again, around the North Anna lines, MFredericksburg setting into and to the . Lee moved to motion the bloodiest and most decisive block Grant’s progress. He held another campaign of the Civil War. strong position behind the Totopotomoy Robert E. Lee moved quickly to meet Creek. After three days of sporadic skir - the challenge. The Confederate commander mishing, Grant turned his attention toward had just 60,000 soldiers with which to stop the Old Cold Harbor crossroads. The Union Grant’s 120,000-man juggernaut. He had army now was positioned to threaten the faced such odds before, and each time he Confederate capital itself.

had turned back the threat. M A T T A P O After nearly a month of continuous N I R I However, this time a new Union general- V fighting, Confederate soldiers found them -

E R in-chief was traveling with the Federal selves digging defensive lines with Rich - forces. Gen. U.S. Grant would prove to mond at their backs. be made of tougher stuff. Grant launched a desperate dawn The Confederates delivered devastat - attack against those earthen defenses near ing blows to the Union advance as it moved Cold Harbor, June 3. He lost nearly 5,000 through the tangled Wilderness south of men in less than an hour. Lee had won his the Rapidan, May 5-6. Rather than turn back last major victory. as others had done, Grant pushed his army On June 12, Grant again disengaged south toward Spotsylvania Court House. and moved south. The Union army crossed Lee beat him there, barely. For nearly the James River and marched toward two weeks, the armies stood and fought – Petersburg and its vital rail connections sometimes hand-to-hand – as Lee resisted to the south. Lee once again moved to meet blow after blow. the threat, but this time the Confederates Failing to break through at Spotsylva - were pinned down. nia, Grant maneuvered cross-country, slid - Grant, utilizing his greater numbers, ing south and east around the Confederate stretched Lee’s army to the breaking point. army. Lee, mirroring the Union movements, When Grant’s Union army (in blue) crossed the Rapidan River in May, 1864, On April 2, 1865, the Confederate line Lee’s under-manned Confederate troops (in red) moved quickly to built a strong line of earthen fortifications engage them. The Union forces, though consistently repelled, continued snapped. The Army of Northern Virginia protecting a critical rail junction south of to swing wide to the east and down to the south toward Richmond abandoned Richmond and started west. Robert E. Lee and Petersburg. Confederate troops mirrored the Union descent, Ulysses S. Grant Commander, Army of Northern Virginia the North Anna River. meeting them in some of the most fierce battles of the war. Appomattox was a week away. General-in-Chief, Forces

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attles are decided on battlefields; Grant had to keep his back to the rivers. ichmond became the capital of the Confederate States of campaigns are decided by logistics. Consequently, he always moved by the left America in the spring of 1861. The prosperous Upper-South As the Union Army of the flank, to the east, when maneuvering city seemed an improbable choice to many, located only BPotomac moved south toward around Lee’s army. R 100 miles south of the Union capital at Washington, D.C. Richmond in the spring and summer of 1864, From those depots, miles of wagon Yet Richmond survived as the capital for nearly four years. During its soldiers required tons of food, clothing, trains and railroads delivered supplies to the war, the city became a center for wounded soldiers and prisoners of .

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A Currier and Ives print of the fall of Richmond in April, 1865. The city was partially destroyed by A legion of 4,300 supply wagons followed the Union army as fires which rampaged out of control after being set by the evacuating Confederate troops. they moved south into The Wilderness Battlefield. One of the war’s largest prison camps was Richmond’s Belle Isle. Today a suspended footbridge enables visitors to cross the James River to this site where tens of thousands of Union soldiers were imprisoned and many perished. h t a r G c M

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