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Peninsula Campaign Driving Tour – Part 2

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Civil War, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Scenic Byways, Virginia2 Comments

- Civil War Series - The 1862 Peninsula Campaign, intended by the Union to put a decisive end to the Civil War by capturing the Confederate capital of Richmond, began with a slow start. Gen. George McClellan, despite setting out in March 1862 with the largest army the continent had ever seen, inched up the …

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Drewry’s Bluff Trail (Richmond National Battlefield Park, VA)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Civil War, Easy Hikes, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia1 Comment

- Civil War Series - As Union gunboats approached Richmond, the Confederate capital, on the morning of May 15, 1862, they were greeted with a hail of heavy artillery fire from what would come to be known as Drewry’s Bluff, a Civil War fortification perched high above Virginia’s James River. Named for local property owner …

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