Providing a documentary history of a Virginia Burned County from the Colonial Era through the early Twentieth Century
Virginia's Timeline to Revolution- 1773-1774
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17th Century Land Grants - A Work in Progress
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The Blisland Grievances- 1677
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The Civil War in New Kent
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Roster of New Kent Cavalry
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Roster of Barhamsville Greys
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Roster of Pamunkey Heavy Artillery, Ellet's Battery (Co.) later Jones' Battery (Co.)
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Historical Gazetteer of New Kent County
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Monday, May 26, 2014
Unknown Dead
A Memorial Day post . . .
Union Soldiers Interred in Richmond National Cemetery, VA
Division: F
Section: 1
No. 5621
(76 to 148)
73 unknown
These bodies were interred in an triangular enclosure, at Bottom's Bridge, where the New Kent road crosses the Chickahominy river. No. 76 was No. 1 grave on the southwest corner of the triangle and the rows followed the hypotenuse.
-Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers who Died in Defence of the American Union, Interred in the National Cemeteries and Other Burial Places ... Vols 16-17
United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1868
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