The Land Battle at Drewry's Bluff, 1864 - Richmond National Battlefield Park

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  • Опубликовано: 15 янв 2025

Комментарии • 8

  • @bruceterrell9287
    @bruceterrell9287 2 года назад +1

    My second great grandfather John William Creery is listed on the signage here at Parker's Battery, but he was not present at this encounter. As a Richmond shoemaker, he had been detailed to the Quartermaster in Richmond and the city's local defense. As a sergeant, he would be called to join the local defence at Chaffins Farm.

  • @Stiglr
    @Stiglr 2 года назад +3

    Thank you for this great account of this battle. I never even KNEW there was a land version of Drewry's Bluff!!!

  • @bentigyer1536
    @bentigyer1536 4 года назад +5

    My 3rd Great Grandfather was wounded through the left arm during the battle. He was in the 55th PA Infantry. Thanks for posting this.

  • @aloneranger3980
    @aloneranger3980 3 года назад +3

    My ancestor Joseph Alexander Thomas, a Confederate soldier, was injured in the second battle of Drewry's Bluff. His arm was amputated and he died of infection June 9, 1864. He was a member of the South Carolina 18th Infantry, the "mountain guards". He died leaving a wife and nine sons.

  • @greenmile9496
    @greenmile9496 4 года назад +4

    You’ll find an excellent first hand account about a Reverend Thomas Brown, Twenty-first Connecticut Infantry chaplain where his regiment honored him as “The Hero of Drewry’s Bluff”.
    Starts on page 155 in the book: “Faces of the Civil War” by Ronald S. Coddington

  • @swarm6697
    @swarm6697 2 года назад

    I wish you would find that mortar that has been lost history should be protected you need to go find it

    • @rosescott9299
      @rosescott9299 Год назад +1

      Are you referring to the “dictator?”. It was likely sold as scrap iron after the war. It seems impossible to lose a 17,000 pound cannon, and being that it was located at City Point, Virginia, and that it was a Federal Cannon that was used against the Virginians it seems they would have liked to melt it down after the war. Would have brought a pretty penny, and maybe help put to rest the nightmare that the dictator was.

  • @lexiheart6558
    @lexiheart6558 5 месяцев назад

    Don't forget the CS Marines were there