Army scenes on the Chickahominy

Army scenes on the Chickahominy
Harper''s pictorial history of the Civil War. (Chicago : Star Publishing Co. 1866)

Monday, June 2, 2014

June 1864



Map by Hal Jespersen, www.cwmaps.com.


One hundred-fifty years ago this month we arrive at the juncture where U.S. Grant's Overland Campaign became the Campaign for Petersburg. We also come to a point when New Kent County found itself again in the path of the principal armies of the war.
Or at least one of them.


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