Seven Days Battles--Mechanicsville

Seven Days Battles--Mechanicsville is a Virginia historical marker in Hanover County, dedicated 1932.

Rte. 156, at Catlin Road, 0.8 miles southeast of Mechanicsville

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Down this slope in the late afternoon of June 26, 1862, A. P. Hill moved to attack the Unionists holding the east side of Beaver Dam Creek. Pender's brigade was on the left, Ripley's on the right. Exposed to a terrible fire from entrenched troops, Pender and Ripley were driven back, though some men reached the stream.

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Historical maps covering this location

1859 · Virginia (Herman Boye, 1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1861 · Official map of the state of Virginia (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1864 · Hughes Military Map Of Richmond & Petersburgh, Va. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Central Virginia showing Lieut Gen'l U.S. Grant's Campaign and Marches. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Cold Harbor. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Cold Harbor, 1869, covering the location of Seven Days Battles--Mechanicsville, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Cold Harbor, 1869, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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