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They walked in the side entrance as music from a band playing at the adjacent Visions Dance Club flowed into the hallway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588791148868-8I61BXSMN4WZJ2S0304L/Ch+10+-+Bryan+Park.JPG Ch 10 - Marlbourne & Young's Spring “Mr. Barrett, bring the gold to the parking lot above Young’s Spring in Bryan Park.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588791460981-RREBWLJSC9YQ9QE9QF8Z/Ch+10+-+Fraise.JPG Ch 10 - Marlbourne & Young's Spring His latest home-improvement project was a circle of fraise around his residence, broken only by the front and back gates. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-9-berkeley daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588789388138-V8H2S9CUYSST89ZP105Z/ch+9+-+Berkeley+-+bald+cypress.JPG Ch 9 - Berkeley Plantation Hezekiah clung to a branch twenty feet up in a bald cypress by the river in the early evening and heard huzzahs over on “Malvern Hill.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588789453117-CVOW6SDP4MMTIHJ42TUH/ch+9+-+Berkely+-+Malvern+Hill.JPG Ch 9 - Berkeley Plantation It wasn’t the real Malvern Hill, a gem of the Richmond National Battlefield Park, but a designated hilltop at Berkeley Plantation serving as General Lee’s objective for today’s reenactment. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-8-berkeley daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588789020367-PMP747OVHFTH2DNFIGBI/ch+8+-+Berkeley+-+Formal+Gardens.JPG Ch 8 - Berkeley Plantation Two lines of white canvas tents faced each other, set up on the terraced lawn beyond the formal gardens of the great Georgian plantation house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588788893762-CUO81RHUKT22J259JJCY/ch+8+-+Berkeley+-+Terraced+Lawn.JPG Ch 8 - Berkeley Plantation The next day at lunchtime, Sutler’s row buzzed with shoppers down by the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588789125751-1DGDB12K96HJUXZY42I6/ch+8+-+Berkeley+-+Windsor+Farms+II.JPG Ch 8 - Berkeley Plantation Gordon, one of the first people Hiram met when he moved to Richmond, introduced him to reenacting. They became friends while Gordon was doing some painting work on Hiram’s house in Windsor Farms, Richmond’s most exclusive neighborhood. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-7-berkeley daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588768717174-MBWWTVUXI9PH3S7RPI8D/ch+7+-+Berkeley+-+River+View.JPG Ch 7 - Berkeley Plantation After the Seven Days Battles in 1862, the Union Army had retreated to Berkeley for protection provided by Federal gunboats in the James River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588788194551-LQ1I5DNFBMSQXFI85YQ7/ch+7+-+Berkeley+-+Taps+Monument.JPG Ch 7 - Berkeley Plantation Around the same time, the Army bugle call “Taps” was arranged and played here for the first time, a sad foreshadowing of how much longer the war would last. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588788292202-QE8LGW2RF0SSYWB0SYXW/ch+7+-+UR.JPG Ch 7 - Berkeley Plantation “I went to school at the University of Richmond and decided to get a job here. Are you between battles?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588788064924-3JWX9A147EYPSPOY4X8T/ch+7+-+Berkeley+house.JPG Ch 7 - Berkeley Plantation Berkeley Plantation, twenty-two miles downriver from Richmond at Harrison’s Landing, was the birthplace of the ninth US president, William Henry Harrison. On July 8, 1862, the sixteenth US president, Abraham Lincoln, visited the plantation. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-6-church-hill daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588706839432-7QQ6C7I7IB0GJ8KELOX5/ch+6+-+Church+Hill+Neighborhood.JPG Chapter 6 Built around the colonial church in the nineteenth century, the area was Richmond’s premier historic district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588706963431-E055F9HBPMQKBMD038X1/ch+6+-+Church+Hill+-+Libby+Hill+View+II.JPG Chapter 6 From Church Hill, the view of the curve in the James River reminded William Byrd II of the River Thames from Richmond Hill in England, even though the water flowed in the opposite direction. In 1737, Byrd was under political pressure to give up his warehouse monopoly at the James River fall line, so he commissioned William Mayo to lay out a town grid to sell lots and called it Richmond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588707155344-390RBTOXOX15NWZE4B1N/ch+6+-+St.+John%27s+back+entrance.JPG Chapter 6 Breathing heavy from their out-of-shape bodies, they stopped halfway up the block and waited at a chained iron gate set into a high brick wall, securing the churchyard. The men slipped up a narrow set of concrete stairs to the churchyard and https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588707490044-5MNB1BNHFGIKF15TA6J2/ch+6+-+Church+Hill+-+Headstone.JPG Chapter 6 Each avoided stepping on the grave sites, some with unreadable headstones worn by time, in the oldest cemetery in the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588707711430-12T3NRERTUGHSICF8NEW/ch+6+-+Church+Hill+-+Church+side.JPG Chapter 6 “I like meeting here,” Garnett said, focusing on the church. “Washington was here, Jefferson was here, and Patrick Henry, too, in 1775. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588707059757-A5MYSXOTWK9T3QCETW6Z/ch+6+-+St.+John%27s+wall.JPG Chapter 6 Turning the corner at Twenty-fourth and East Grace Streets, bordering St. John’s Church, Carter and Wendell Flood walked at a fast clip over the uneven brick sidewalk, illuminated by the yellow glow of gas lampposts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588707618848-M1UNLF1ZOROYJDXH5C3H/ch+6+-+Church+Hill+-+Wythe.JPG Chapter 6 Under a hackberry tree, they gathered around the grave of George Wythe, Virginia’s first signer of the Declaration of Independence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588706731682-6D4GMNXORZO75XHCFLPH/ch+6+-+St.+John%27s+front.JPG Chapter 6 The Church Hill neighborhood was the namesake of St. John’s Episcopal Church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588707373368-ZPQ7QTSZUA56AI3AO5C1/ch+6+-+St.+John%27s+steeple.JPG Chapter 6 sidled around the white wooden-framed colonial church. They stayed out of the glare of the spotlights lighting the church and its steeple topped with a wooden cross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588707804969-PL466PHQ1DJ5KGI1HRIY/ch+6+-+Church+Hill+-+Luck+Strike.JPG Chapter 6 The Lucky Strike smokestack rose in the distance. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-5-manchester-docks daily 0.75 2020-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588595048428-C6DJNG8VF6DNQAE37OYS/ch+5+-+Manchester+Docks+-+Pipeline.JPG Ch 5 - Manchester Slave Docks In the East End of Richmond just below the fall line on the south side of the James River, a hundred miles from the ocean, the fresh waters of the mountains and the piedmont rolled down commingling with the flat tidal waters of the coastal plain at the Manchester docks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1606051672061-SD10094779BO43VVQCM3/ch+5+-+Manchester+Docks+Seawall.JPG Ch 5 - Manchester Slave Docks The docks developed into a major port for slave ships in the first half of the nineteenth century. . . . Virginia had more slaves to sell than any other state, and by the 1840s, large quantities of human “goods” were shipped out of Richmond, and selling people became Richmond’s biggest business. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588599151575-6FPTCBIHFJXM7L7SC22A/ch+5+-+St.+John%27s.JPG Ch 5 - Manchester Slave Docks “In St. John’s Church on that hill, Patrick Henry said, ‘Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? . . . Forbid it, Almighty God—I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!’” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1606052273140-NOQY9PFDRI3CU9OH0XHN/ch+5+-+Manchester+Docks+-+upriver+2.JPG Ch 5 - Manchester Slave Docks Built on bondage before the outbreak of the Civil War, Richmond was the East Coast’s leading exporter of slaves, trafficking hundreds of human beings “down the river” each month. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1606051927477-DUULQ9VRJ2T7PCTBVR5Q/ch+5+-+Manchester+Docks+-+downriver.JPG Ch 5 - Manchester Slave Docks Nothing was left of the Manchester docks except for a granite-block seawall built after the Civil War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588598743231-C13WIMOQS4AM8DIYVCK5/ch+5+-+Manchester+Docks+-+SS+Mnmt+2.JPG Ch 5 - Manchester Slave Docks "And look at that cursed monument.” He pointed across the James and up to Church Hill at the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, a pillar poking out above the tree canopy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588598581295-IFIDVK8WOOGWZ87E0GWG/ch+5+-+Manchester+Docks+2.JPG Ch 5 - Manchester Slave Docks Fattah gazed the short distance over to the river’s north bank, thick with overhanging trees. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-4-tredegar daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588536532241-IY7UF1GS85PBIDGXP51E/ch+4+-+Tredegar+-+Brooke+%26+Pattern+Building.JPG Ch 4 - Tredegar Iron Works Gordon and Pat made their way over to the bar, set up in front of a Brooke rifled cannon cast at the iron works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588593401018-7EHIMD6Z76WUTHKPH2BU/ch+4+-+Lincoln+and+Tad+statue.JPG Ch 4 - Tredegar Iron Works avoiding eye contact with the Abraham and Tad Lincoln statue at the top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588535112019-O8MUE2EC35T8TY95PV1S/ch+4+-+Tredegar+-+from+5th+Street.JPG Ch 4 - Tredegar Iron Works Though the foundry didn’t look like much more than an oversized brick barn with a smokestack, it had been part of the Confederacy’s most valuable industrial asset, Tredegar Iron Works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588534963095-VZ6H6SPU1ADS21ZE6V56/ch+4+-+Tredegar+Ironworks+-+front+view.JPG Ch 4 - Tredegar Iron Works They sashayed on down the sidewalk to their destination, the gun foundry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588534724605-N6L0PYGK7MFMR0EAX1DZ/ch+4+-+Tredegar+Haxell+Walkway.JPG Ch 4 - Tredegar Iron Works Greeting the reenactors from across the street were silent black protestors, lining the walk along the refurbished Haxall Flour Mill Canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588536346396-SBB1QHPXSCHGRF62899P/ch+4+-+Tredegar+-+Courtyard.JPG Ch 4 - Tredegar Iron Works The building once wheezed, fumed, and hissed with manufacturing activity but was now part of the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, filled with exhibits and artifacts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588593922722-R1ADBW6STCB1A02PICIY/ch+4+-+canal+towpath.JPG Ch 4 - Tredegar Iron Works backed up against the towpath of the dry James River and Kanawha Canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588593174485-0ORHA5XG08DYZXYO9AQG/ch+4+-+Tredegar+-+Waterwheel.JPG Ch 4 - Tredegar Iron Works The women laughed together as Pat, Raleigh, and Gordon approached a big man watching a waterwheel turn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588594027594-5J0DNHECASNKBEUY0QQ5/ch+4+-+Tredegar+-+Company+Store+-+back.JPG Ch 4 - Tredegar Iron Works Embedded in the bank beside the structure that had served as Tredegar's company store was a set of old railroad-tie stairs that they walked up to reach the second floor. . . . It was all one room with small windows in the front and larger ones in the back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588593657857-5Z8P10K7KNZRD27OQGQO/ch+4+-+company+store+front.JPG Ch 4 - Tredegar Iron Works The contingent ambled to the rear of the property to a building with a stepped gable roof, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588593262492-XPPG33IPRDP7TECRI6CB/ch+4+-+Tredegar+Back+Steps.JPG Ch 4 - Tredegar Iron Works The men exited the party out the back of the courtyard through crumbling brick archways. The ruins, though reminiscent of the Richmond Evacuation Fire of 1865, were the remnants of Tredegar’s Central Foundry after the flood damage from Hurricane Agnes in 1972. They proceeded up a metal stairway, https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/chapter-3 daily 0.75 2020-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588683840048-8Y45QIO04NAHSNKJEGXL/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Jeff+Davis+Statue.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue The one and only president of the Confederacy was molded into an oratory pose, stepping up with his arm flung forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588684374691-HQ41FM520MQBFZP07XSQ/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Jeb+Stuart.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue They saluted the giant bronze action figure of Jeb Stuart on a bristling mount. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588620569905-IBPIZFO95B23TUMU5YPK/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+The+Maples.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue Once they made it through the intersection, the oaks in the median were replaced by sugar maples and https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588619827854-REYQKYRUNSM7FMBH317D/ch+3+-+medium+shade.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue The light changed, and they rolled on, engulfed by the towering oaks planted in the broad, grassy median. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588684737719-7ONPQILAZXUMYEF586RO/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Monroe+Park.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue At the eastern end of the campus was Monroe Park. Once used as a training camp for Confederate troops, the park was now a hangout for the homeless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588684847842-N5X5L0ENUCNKFUC2PEYY/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Franklin+St+2.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue They crossed over Belvidere Street, where the modern high-rises mixed with the older architecture, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588620265748-RA4RCI0GRTZ9EVMR9S3Y/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Maury.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue They approached the first monument to a Confederate, Matthew Fontaine Maury, better known as the Father of Modern Oceanography rather than his exploits as a Rebel. Maury slumped in a chair below a titanic globe and allegorical figures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588619263273-ZBDWIUZR5EEVE0H8X88J/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Traffic+Circle.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue punctuated by traffic circles containing Confederate memorials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1606052813323-TDU987YVTDP1BQC55ML2/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+paving+stones.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue the road surface changed from asphalt to paving blocks. The car began to vibrate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588620418612-11FGXGEAKGI1FVYS1U23/ch+3+-+Stonewall+Jackson.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue In the middle of the intersection sat the Stonewall Jackson monument. Stonewall, accidentally shot by his own men at Chancellorsville, was portrayed here on a pedestal on a horse facing north, eternally on reconnaissance for the South. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588683961410-DXPKSH48EAVUX6K7WS80/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Miss+Confederacy.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue Directly behind the Davis statue rose a sixty-foot column with the Confederate motto Deo vindice wrapped around its apex. It was Latin for “God will vindicate” and Confederate for “The South was right.” “Miss Confederacy” capped the column, pointing to heaven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588685081112-L19RD2PAVBQEAWM9VVIG/ch+3+-+2nd+Presby.+Ch..JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue then turned onto Fifth Street. On the left was the Second Presbyterian Church, where Stonewall Jackson had worshipped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588684121187-7DMCEV7Y6V2JSXIEDV5G/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Mansion.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue They rambled by the revival-styled mansions, built mostly during the good economic times between the Panic of 1893 and the Stock Market Crash of 1929. By the 1920s, Monument Avenue was a full-fledged bourgeois suburb. Today, the neighborhood housed a more diverse demographic, from college students to multimillionaires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588684472963-9PDTDI1D03YEU6HHSWCD/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Franklin+St.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue As Monument Avenue turned into Franklin Street. . . . They glided deeper and deeper into the older sections of the city, sweeping through Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588683680267-A6SF5XM4B8P3I3M2IT6H/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Jeff+Davis+Columns.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue encased by a half circle of thirteen columns, eleven columns for the seceding states and two columns for the states sending the Confederacy representatives and troops, Kentucky and Missouri. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588684592935-9FLSSYFDRVNQUF5IPAKI/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+VCU+Eclectic+Architecture.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue What the urban school lacked in green space, it made up for in eclectic architecture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588683549161-ZURU8ZOMJV4B8MA7BRMO/ch+3+-+Jeff+Davis+front.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue Gordon and Hezekiah passed the Jefferson Davis Monument, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588618587435-9ZUI8QNJ24QSI9UY5909/Monument+Ave+-+architecture.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue Whenever Raleigh and Gayle ventured into downtown Richmond, they always took Monument Avenue, a road ridiculed as the Lost Causeway. Despite the sobriquet, the street was still one of America’s grand boulevards, lined with American Renaissance architecture and https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588619433055-TWMEUHQJN2R5A3ZZC8PO/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Ashe+2.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue The first monument the Fuquas came upon during their second-place victory lap wasn’t to a Confederate, but to a hero from a different age placed there with a unanimous vote by the black-majority Richmond City Council in 1996. As they sat at the stoplight, Gayle stared at the statue. “Poor Arthur Ashe, the only winner on Losers' Lane.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588619654479-A8SIIU1ZJ51ADJAN6XDQ/ch+3+-+cannon.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue Raleigh clinched his teeth. “For God’s sake, you don’t put a tennis player where the second line of the Confederate earthworks ran for the defense of Richmond.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588684228649-VEL1HST9825BV7KZ9GIV/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Lee+2.JPG Ch 3 - Monument Avenue Gordon maneuvered around a traffic circle and looked up sixty-one feet to his left at the man on the highest pedestal on Monument Avenue. They saluted the statue of General Robert E. Lee riding his horse, “Traveller.” https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-19-fbi-interrogation daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590076034872-T1TZXP7WAEJ34U3YPB5P/ch+19+-+Cold+Harbor+Parking+Lot.JPG Ch 19 - FBI Interrogation “How about the Cold Harbor Visitor Center parking lot?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590076121478-O5EEMDTAP2AA7DYTGFI7/ch+19+-+Gaines+Mill+battlefield+sign.JPG Ch 19 - FBI Interrogation "How about Sunday evening at six o’clock?”“That’s June 27.” “So?” “Nothing. It’s just the anniversary of the Battle of Gaines’s Mill.” https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-18-jefferson-hotel daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590059801444-5PJPD1SHWPBI2PJW7BJH/ch+18+-+Main+St+Entrance.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel With Raleigh’s direction, Jimmy parked the car on the street beside the five-star hotel. They entered the establishment from Main Street, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590060176389-3J1VET0CUOJ5WG6GRVNM/ch+18+-+TJs.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel On the left side of the majestic space, Hark sat in T.J.’s Lounge, dressed in a dark suit and a red bow tie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590075054651-DMGHKERIBGSX5EEJZRGI/ch+18+-+Alligator.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel Through most of the first half of the twentieth century, alligators lived in marbled fountains beside the Jefferson statue. The inside fountains were now gone, and the only alligators left were in the form of a few bronze sculptures in and around the hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590075212327-CLZLIXIKWQY2QFMFCHLT/ch+18+-+Jefferson+palm+entrance.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel One of the men peered through the glare of the glass doors and saw the reenactors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590059716107-NIP6MG9LK3UOKQ4DFSR8/ch+18+-+Jefferson+Designed.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel Designed by Carrère and Hastings, the same architectural firm that created the New York Public Library, the Jefferson Hotel was considered one of the country’s best examples of Beaux Arts eclectic architecture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590074967609-37RE0LS0QS9Y16PD9XWY/ch+18+-+Jefferson+ceiling.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel The statue stood underneath a circular skylight of stained glass. The disk formed a dazzling blue-and-white halo above the head of the founding father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590060083953-BZ29B1S7QFSO8EKRKKOG/ch+18+-+columns+II.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel Around the perimeter, stout, stacked pairs of Corinthian columns of concrete and plaster, with a brown marble faux finish, and fruited and flowered adornment, supported the mezzanine and the roof. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590075638888-5F17T6ZPBV29MC66TY4L/ch+18+-+Mezzanine.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel Ballard watched the whole thing from the mezzanine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590060822436-CIPSOC06UI38TTPNXQIN/ch+18+-+Palm+Court+entrance.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel At the top of the stairs, the reenactors entered the Palm Court Lobby, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590075577366-RJCCVQFZK76RU3MCAGKK/ch+18+-+Jefferson+main+st+entrance.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel Hark followed the rest of the reenactors who had made it out the door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590075306483-RRYKJRQBSGOD1H7IPJ93/ch+18+-+down+Grand+staircase.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel The reenactors dashed down the Grand Staircase on the double-quick, with Raleigh clanging his sword on every other step. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590059607545-LCTH1018H6OXM8J3DJH8/ch+18+-+Jefferson+front.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel The hotel was constructed in the 1890s by Lewis Ginter, the richest man in Virginia at the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590060898756-EVGJRGUYSCI7X3FWMCHU/ch+18+-+Jefferson+statue.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel housing a life-sized marble statue of Thomas Jefferson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590059986858-8T48IX45JD05FTAK1EJM/ch+18+-+stained-glass+ceiling.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel A stained-glass skylight hovered in the center, the size of a small swimming pool, illuminating the interior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590075699916-RP244BHI218DYX8TAAT2/ch+18+-+Jefferson+palm.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel Lying on his back, Gordon opened his eyes and began making out the gold-leaf coconut palm fronds on the ceiling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590075124920-IWNW7Z18POKVJQFN6TAS/ch+18+-+Franklin+St+Entrance.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel From their vantage point, the reenactors could see through the windows in the doors facing Adams Street and spotted Sterling, pulling up in his Jaguar into the circular drive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590075471923-PR8WIRXQBX1S47LC4PI1/ch+18+-+Jefferson+service+entrance.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel A bewildered Hezekiah stumbled out a side exit with the man, away from all the excitement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590059182731-HJEGYPSHF1T7LUFB4NGE/ch+18+-+Jefferson+towers.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel When Jimmy turned onto Cary Street, in the distance they could see the twin Italian clock towers of Richmond’s grand hotel, the Jefferson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590059888934-PO5AZJEZJYA6ZCR8XR84/ch+18+-+Jefferson+rotunda.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel tramping into the Rotunda, an opulent and misnamed rectangular lobby with a soaring ceiling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590060750742-HO5TSQ5CZVZR64VZE9JH/ch+18+-+up+Grand+staircase.JPG Ch 18 - Jefferson Hotel He spotted the reenactors proceeding to the Grand Staircase. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-17-hollywood daily 0.75 2020-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589728345409-WRTE1V8AB6GK855FS49S/ch+17+-+Confederate+Chapel+under+black+oak+II.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery Carter and Wendell, shabbily dressed for the occasion but managing to wear shirts and shoes, stood across from the front of the chapel under a black oak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589744762735-4AOYGLX9Y1F3U8MTS6HV/ch+17+-+Hollywood+roads.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The pastoral memorial remained one of Richmond’s more popular “parks.” Tall ancient trees shaded carriage lanes, winding over hills and dales https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589743953074-J0RT7IMJO36XD855LRQN/ch+17+-+Oregon+Hill+church.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The neighborhood had been named in the 1840s after the Oregon Territory, because to Richmond residents at the time, the area seemed as far west of downtown as the territory. Oregon Hill had its heyday between the Civil War and World War II, serving as a quarter for the workers of Tredegar Iron Works and Albemarle Paper Company located below the hill on the James River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589744533837-W42QUXNW5TYR86OPQ04D/ch+17+-+Tyler+grave.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery and John Tyler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589728202080-LE89SCP42L4KT0ZIEF49/ch+17+-+CMC+window.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The dark interior flooded with sunlight, breaching the stained-glass windows, firing up their mosaics of cannons and rebel flags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589743300828-QDDR9ZHM93C461YN13O2/ch+17+-+Hollywood+Chapel.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery They marched past the stone mortuary chapel now serving as the cemetery’s office and https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589744879856-5XBVJQ1EE4SMNIEI4OUM/ch+17+-+Hollywood+memorials.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery covered with artistic memorials of stone, bronze, and iron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589744978130-88CGWK4VBZYFGTB2554A/ch+17+-+entrance+road.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery At the bottom of the hill, the procession crossed a bridge that once bordered a pond that was drained and filled shortly after World War II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589728270288-F9P9EAZ8WUJEJ7R5FKY1/ch+17+-+CMC+pulpit.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery When the reverend finished, he gazed upward to the bare wooden buttresses supporting the sanctuary’s ceiling then looked back down at the bereaved and spoke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589744188479-XESOFR7SGNDCB7579FSA/ch+17+-+JD.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery Richmond had been the capital of the Confederacy, and Hollywood Cemetery was its shrine. It was the final resting place for the president of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589744622858-64OEF14UNGGW1B0OTXRD/ch+17+-+river+view.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The 135-acre garden cemetery was named after its numerous holly trees. Hollywood was designed to be as much a park as a cemetery, with impressive views of the James River and the Richmond skyline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589744278444-D5H54ENAPIMT6HHKWT1F/ch+17+-+JEB.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery twenty-five Confederate generals including George Pickett and Jeb Stuart, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589744469798-U3ZEIWQ0J05PX8DAA5UN/ch+17+-+Hollywood.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery Also buried here were two other presidents: James Monroe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589743197942-OB9R0UPX1EUDWFH3P26R/ch+17+-+Hollywood+Gates.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The procession continued to the entrance of Hollywood Cemetery. The head of the column stopped just inside the gates of the cemetery . . . . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589728413859-BARJGM5JLB4YEHTDZ9V5/ch+17+-+CMC+side.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery When Gordon came out of the chapel, he moseyed over to the side lawn for a quick smoke before joining the procession. He settled by a hemlock tree and pulled out a cigar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589744374431-9E8KOCPRVLIL57JNMJKP/ch+17+-+Hollywood+Soldiers+Section.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery and over 18,000 Johnny Rebs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589745767154-ZB4X6ZGOYIYQT1UQALIV/ch+17+-+CSA+headstone.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery This was the section of the cemetery reserved for the Confederate veterans who had lived at the Old Soldiers' Home on the Boulevard. The small stones, with just enough room to inscribe a number and C.S.A., were provided when the Confederate veterans died, in most cases, well into the twentieth century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589745960983-1M2S0Y56X2ZA9M031C23/ch+17+-+Gettysburg+Dead.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery Six years after the war was over, the Confederate dead still lay hastily buried in farmers’ fields around Gettysburg. The Rebels weren’t allowed to be buried in the national cemetery established on the Gettysburg battlefield. So in 1872 and 1873, the remains of 2,935 Confederate soldiers who had died at Gettysburg were brought back to Richmond and reinterred on this hillside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589743042914-BYTGSGZH1ZU9CFJAS4M6/ch+17+-+Oregon+Hill+houses+II.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The cavalcade wound its way around the university and entered the broken streets of Oregon Hill, a white working-class neighborhood and student ghetto, sung about in the unflattering 1992 pop song by the Cowboy Junkies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589745205879-1SJYCQQ1A0JNW54U9EFC/ch+17+-+Confederate+Avenue.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The caravan moved on up Confederate Avenue, where Confederate flags dotted graves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589745865340-8JHI2P7KDVA96O6YG5E1/ch+17+-+mod+headstone.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The larger stones, standard US government-issued markers like the ones in Arlington National Cemetery, were replacements for the smaller ones, usually put there by a soldier’s descendants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589745373330-VAATVKNGN5Y8Y7NQCMVI/ch+17+-+Hollywood+new+section.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The sorrowers went down a short hill and back up another to a newer section of the cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589728569885-J9US48VKWDB1V4QV44VV/ch+17+-+Stonewall.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery They turned at the Stonewall Jackson statue for Marion’s last ride down Monument Avenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589728494265-DKSO1SPLBM3U0S6TC1ZL/ch+17+-+Crepe+Myrtles.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The solemn column headed down the Boulevard along the median of crepe myrtles, sprouting pink, papery blooms in the late morning heat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589728697250-88YKKJ7EK39NO2LRK6R8/ch+17+-+Howitzer+2.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The column marched straight until it arrived at Harrison Street then cut through VCU, passing the monument to the Richmond Howitzers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589746027368-S7CI97HATE5UF5W6IS7U/ch+17+-+Picketts+grave.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery General George E. Pickett’s grave marker loomed over some of the men who died in the infantry assault named after the general. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589743472279-21AY35VPNLGCYGWZ469S/ch+17+-+Hollywood+downhill.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery down the hill into the city of the dead where every blue-blooded Richmonder wanted to reside someday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589743123138-2R4ANRBHP8J39OPW4UZ3/ch+17+-+Oregon+Hill+houses.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The historic neighborhood had been saved from VCU’s expansion plans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589728114545-DQVSCOYXD2UIVF1W1L6Y/ch+17+-+CMC+1.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery The Confederate Memorial Chapel stood tucked away behind the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on the Boulevard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589745444009-QZ4WB4G23XH81Y0A14UQ/ch+17+-+willow.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery Gordon’s party split from the herd and slipped down into a dale where a weeping willow grew. They parted the slender hanging willow branches like hippie door beads to enter a bottom acre filled with small grave markers and a few larger markers scattered among them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589745285565-B7GE132P2LX1IN6VHZC5/ch+17+-+pyramid.JPG Ch 17 - Hollywood Cemetery At the top of the hill, they took the horseshoe curve around to the cemetery’s largest memorial, a granite-block pyramid. Forty-five feet at the base and ninety feet tall, the monolith was consecrated to the Confederate dead and watched over them. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-16-pamunkey-valley daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589727462161-W1NZOXVFXPPJ2R29TU8N/ch+16+-+Pamunkey+River+Valley.JPG Ch 16 - Pamunkey Valley In 1736, Patrick Henry, “the Voice of the American Revolution,” was born in the broad and fertile Pamunkey River Valley, eighteen miles northeast of Richmond. In 1844, Edmund Ruffin, one of the more ardent voices for a Second American Revolution, moved to the valley and started making a name for himself as an innovative agriculturist. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-15-jackson-ward daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589726719909-P5U7UB6E1KOV65FXSPNS/ch+15+-+black+history+museum.JPG Ch 15 - Jackson Ward Comprising forty city blocks, Jackson Ward was America’s largest National Historic Landmark district associated with black history. It was also one of the most endangered historic neighborhoods in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589727098339-BFSGMI0FHTV8NNOOZ6U3/ch+15+-+Mama+Js.JPG Ch 15 - Jackson Ward Leela and Fattah ambled out of the garden to Mama J’s on First Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589727247825-6XLIEGZ9EDMU99HTCW96/ch+15+-+Bojangles+II.JPG Ch 15 - Jackson Ward There was Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, “the King of Tap Dancers,” born in Jackson Ward, replicated in Reynolds Aluminum . . . . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589727175911-4HG8YJ5RWDQRL7UTZQVT/ch+15+-+VUU.JPG Ch 15 - Jackson Ward Fattah started walking at a fast clip toward Leigh Street on his way to Virginia Union University. Union was Richmond’s historically black college, started after the Civil War in the former Lumpkin’s Slave Jail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589726846697-CENIOZRQ8ROYKFPHHGZV/ch+15+-+Maggie+Walker+house.JPG Ch 15 - Jackson Ward By the turn of the twentieth century, Jackson Ward, known as the Black Wall Street, had become one of the most influential black communities in the country. Civil rights activist Maggie Walker had lived here, the first woman in the nation to found a bank. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589727025549-GUPMS9PUQU861D7553DW/ch+15+-+Jackson+Ward+ironwork.JPG Ch 15 - Jackson Ward He moved hurriedly past houses with ornate cast-iron porches, part of Virginia’s richest trove of decorative ironwork tucked away in the historic black district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589726954041-K1V33IPLCVFBCJ5ZZJGJ/ch+15+-+Hippodrome.JPG Ch 15 - Jackson Ward The action had been centered on Second Street, dubbed the Deuce in its heyday, and the center of the Deuce was the Hippodrome Theater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589726607461-HNT2KRL863LY4LISCLLL/ch+15+-+Richmond+Dairy.JPG Ch 15 - Jackson Ward He passed a brick fortress with giant milk bottles made of concrete blocks and covered in white plaster on three of its four corners, advertising the building’s original use. The old Richmond Dairy had been converted into apartments. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-14-the-valentine daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589715725668-IVXT5LYL38PCATEHM4FA/ch+14+-+Valentine+back+entrance.JPG Ch 14 - Valentine Museum The Valentine, established in 1892, showcased Richmond’s history and was named after Mann S. Valentine, Jr., the institution’s original benefactor who had made a fortune selling a beef-juice tonic. The museum also went by the name of the Valentine Richmond History Center to prevent confusion among tourists hoping to see cupid-related artifacts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589716185958-GOR64TL84WV5JO7FMFWY/ch+14+-+wickham+house.JPG Ch 14 - Valentine Museum Pat and Ann maneuvered through a garden of boxwoods and sculptures below the terrace of the 1812 Wickham-Valentine House, a white Federal-style mansion, donated by Mann to the museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589715870048-IK97I0GW2L2BEAFVA40Y/ch+14+-+Valentine+studio.JPG Ch 14 - Valentine Museum The couple went into the museum’s café, purchased their food, and took it outside, walking past the sculpture studio of Edward Valentine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589716447561-DBGSSWCZFC5KXRYWYFDA/ch+14+-+mansion+2.JPG Ch 14 - Valentine Museum As the pair enjoyed their meal, Mary Beth appeared on the white-columned veranda of the house in a hooped dress and did a double take when she spotted the couple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589715622386-PMMXCXI7IYUCL59FXQ3M/ch+14+-+Valentine+entrance.JPG Ch 14 - Valentine Museum Pat and Ann entered the grounds of the Valentine Museum through a white-painted brick archway off North Tenth Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589716011690-6J5C4UCU0KIOCD1MWXVS/ch+14+-+Lee+on+slab.JPG Ch 14 - Valentine Museum The studio held the model for the “Recumbent Statue” of Robert E. Lee asleep on the battlefield, installed in the Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University, where Lee was buried beneath. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589716373603-UZJCILXZ2YPNN6FTLDCB/ch+14+-+Valentine+fountain.JPG Ch 14 - Valentine Museum beside a flowing triple-layered iron fountain encircled by iron ducks waddling around its base. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589716271032-76Z50XC4HL3US051QYLE/ch+14+-+magnolia+tree+seating.JPG Ch 14 - Valentine Museum They found a table under the shade of an old magnolia tree in bloom, https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-13-the-valentine daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1589715268682-DA9759UJYNAUOQ6P4UUU/ch+13+-+Valentine+front.JPG Ch 13 - Valentine Museum Pat winked. “I’m going to meet her today in the garden at the Valentine Museum for lunch.” Gordon placed his palms on his cheeks and swooned. “Oh, the Valentine Museum. How romantic.” https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-12-the-fan daily 0.75 2020-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588957598854-08909TJWB4RJSPGLVF7D/ch+12+-+Main+St+2.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan He quickly hit downtown and rode on Main Street through a canyon of office buildings. On the day Mayor Mayo took his surrender ride, this business quarter was in the hub of a firestorm started by Confederate troops before evacuating the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588958318464-KS382P7VOAM66XNUH1GL/ch+12+-+Meadow+Park.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan The road split, and they took a left at the small, triangular-shaped Meadow Park, a product of the fanning streets. At the apex of the park stood a refreshing statue of a colonial soldier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588957499945-Q1MP7C2XJ1FO4OYI6FWI/ch+12+-+Tree+Hill+Farm.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan A 3,000-home development was slated to be built on Tree Hill Farm, where Richmond Mayor Joseph Mayo on the morning of April 3, 1865, rode out in a carriage to surrender the burning Confederate capital to Union General Godfrey Weitzel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588957366013-Q8JELASG797A4NHDILB8/ch+12+-+tobacco.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan Pat turned onto Osborne Turnpike, heading out of Varina. This section of Henrico County, east of Richmond, was named after John Rolfe’s Varina Farms, established several miles away on the James River. Rolfe named his plantation after Varinas, Spain, where his tobacco seed stock had originated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588959961524-1NXNF13C6W9NWCSZF05S/ch+12+-+VHS+horse.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan The grassy patch contained a statue of a bent-over, broken-down, emaciated horse without a rider, donated by Paul Mellon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588959349535-07BSJMA5AOH8RZE7IBW6/ch+12+-+beside+Meadow+Park.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan The streets widened, revealing the architecture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588959852470-ZF8AWOB9B1KMAK7NSA7P/ch+12+-+VHS.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan To the right of the UDC headquarters stood the Virginia Historical Society. . . . Pat and Ann rode Shiloh up the front steps of the historical society to a small lawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588959556274-EJF3DPR3ORMKPW7DRHH5/ch+12+-+Fox+School.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan Riding past Fox Elementary School where Ann taught . . . . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1606051268410-C1JV9UWEWQ0TFK1CLNKC/ch+12+-+West+Ave+house+2.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan Pat drove out of downtown to the Fan, a neighborhood of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century town houses, noted for its harmonious architecture heavily influenced by the City Beautiful movement. The Fan was over a hundred city blocks in size and included Monument Avenue. The name referred to the manner its streets radiated to the west, giving the district the shape of a half-opened fan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588957882882-3LLE5WEJ5911PNUIXVNQ/ch+12+-+St.+James+Steeple.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan Looming above the house towers, a block away on Franklin Street was the copper-tarnished, forty-foot steeple of St. James's Episcopal Church, the church where Jeb Stuart worshipped and his funeral service was held. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588959652014-P0VD5BWKT26YCVCGQ9GV/ch+12+-+Buddy%27s.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan They traveled two more blocks until forced to stop at a red light, receiving hoots and catcalls from the patio at Buddy’s Place, a neighborhood bar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588957793292-L20U5PDHFM6DP59OLGJE/ch+12+-+West+Ave+turrets.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan The turrets of Queen Anne town houses rose above the trees, lining the street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588959737064-YIAV5KJ9NSDH941SBTSE/ch+12+-+UDC.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan Ann looked to her left and pointed with one finger off the horn at the building across the street. “I’ve always wondered. Is that a mausoleum?” “You might say that.” Pat grinned. “It’s the headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the UDC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588958026050-4V9VIL26BJQ149JEMJAZ/ch+12+-+West+Ave+gardens.JPG Ch 12 - The Fan Ann nodded with trepidation, and off they clopped, past the tiny sidewalk gardens of flowers, shrubs, and ivy. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-11-belle-isle daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588883954252-WKJ1IJ7P65RC8OYV8HBR/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Hollywood+Hydralic.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle “I like it here.” Hezekiah stared into the swirling green-and-white hypnotic hydraulics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588883793463-YJ0RTJ6310B75ZI01YJJ/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Hollywood+Cemetery.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle The Class 3+ rapid with a six-foot drop got its name from its proximity to Hollywood Cemetery, located on the hill across from the swift water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588882388867-73X7WQY54RNZ3292M0NN/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Pedestrian+Bridge+II.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle The footbridge’s concrete arch spans and aluminum guardrails made it look like a roller coaster track suspended from underneath the Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588883582286-BVLMGT0GV631QRR66STB/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Trail.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle A mountain biker passed the boys as they slipped into a shady lane that sliced cleanly through a jungle of trees, grapevines, and poison ivy at the base of the island’s wooded ridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588882993397-J9524R6V1D7DOFMIDT14/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Up+River.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle upriver at the granite basin of bedrock and boulders created 325 million years ago, when Africa collided into North America, pushing up the Appalachian Mountains. The basin was the river’s fall line, where it passed from the piedmont to the coastal plain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588882176909-PPKL9H4WKLZNLAFFKL42/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Cross+Over+River.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle “Not in these wool pants,” Hezekiah said, looking out over the placid river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588882289159-S11CFNCF6H6CJUGCNVEV/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Pedestrian+Bridge+Ramp.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle Jimmy and Hezekiah took the sidewalk leading to the 1,000-foot-long Belle Isle pedestrian bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588882917774-V06XBRHCPLCT6ZK6WZER/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Down+River.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle the boys looked downriver and https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588881971329-A9QOFJJMZ6TE59BMPSP0/ch+11+-+Grace+Street.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle Gordon parked his car downtown on Grace Street. Most of the businesses on Grace had been boarded up for years, and most of the people on the sidewalks were homeless. Like other downtowns in America, Richmond had moved to the suburbs, but some new businesses were emerging on Grace, while some businesses had held on through the blight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588883373172-L9HC5XBYDDXXUJXC5I1R/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+wildlife.jpg Ch 11 - Belle Isle At the end of the footbridge, they stepped out from under the shade of the big bridge and onto Belle Isle, a fifty-six-acre island in the river. The island was a wilderness in the middle of the city, furnishing refuge for wildlife, both natural and human. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588882825302-17C62F73LGTFG9Y4AZVF/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+soltice.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle Once on the hanging footpath, the constant west wind, funneling down the river, hit the boys in the face. Shaded from the summer solstice sun by the Lee Bridge above, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588884078643-9ZILSTC3R3C1F4GIYBH0/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+NMCS.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle “We’ll have fun. They’ve got some great people to work with down there at the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588883882177-AVEDOIHH3NN421ZQN10H/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Temp+Pool+2.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle Jimmy surveyed the river. Anglers sought smallmouth bass, while great blue herons sought whatever fish they could swallow. A few mothers watched their kids closely at the temporary swimming hole above the big rapid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588883471968-U3XG3NVDNG3OJDJOMPZM/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Prison+Camp+II.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle The boys passed an overgrown field, partially surrounded by a dirt mound border two-and-a-half feet high. It marked the deadline for the Belle Isle Civil War prison camp, a precursor to Andersonville. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588884181882-PUVRHU0D2LASU3INY263/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Down+from+Hollywood.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle He looked down river at the city’s skyline, then returned his eyes to the boys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588883688454-PLU01ZDG86F87WMSE1C3/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+Hollywood+Rapid+III.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle They walked a couple hundred yards beside the river, then hopped down to the river rocks, back into the sunlight to view Hollywood Rapid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588882088847-9GK55FOKV7IHKESOA0O2/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Rope+Swing.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle A rope hung down from the trestle’s underbelly. Teenagers lined up to swing out and drop into the water. “You want to do the rope swing while we’re down here?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1588883206571-D24QH109FOU9I5R672AW/ch+11+-+Belle+Isle+-+Up+River+II.JPG Ch 11 - Belle Isle The falls provided power to turn waterwheels for industry, and in the nineteenth century, some of America’s largest flour mills were built here. . . . Today, the falls provided the best urban white water in the country. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2020-05-06 https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/updates daily 0.75 2020-05-06 https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-20-the-setup daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590089707578-7C34PTF4XYKSN4Z1MQH9/ch+20+-+Cold+Harbor+parking+lot+II.JPG Ch 20 - The Setup I talked to Mr. Fuqua about this already and he’d like to meet you at the Cold Harbor Visitor Center at six Sunday evening to give you the gold.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590090283597-2GP39YNYHU6Q1QEEK2BE/ch+20+-+Youngs+Spring.JPG Ch 20 - The Setup “We were disappointed we didn’t see you at Young’s Spring Monday evening, but we did see you at the Jefferson Hotel today.” https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-21-the-escape daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590091546661-AP4LCQS8RQRW38T557TY/ch+21+-+Greek+Takeout.JPG Ch 21 - The Escape “We can make a quick run over to the Mediterranean Bakery.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590091608142-RNCE9IZUNXIH9T9IK3N5/ch+21+-+Regency+Square.JPG Ch 21 - The Escape He leapt a guardrail bordering the parking lot of Regency Square Mall and sprinted across the hot asphalt to the mall entrance. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-22-chimborazo-hill-shockoe-hill daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590581346096-20FOMU2C2GSZHVPOJ15R/ch+22+-+Soldiers+Section.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery The fence sections between the stacked arms were formed into crossed swords with laurel wreaths hanging from them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590751615922-QHTTCPXFIEH3RL8LRNN3/ch+22+-+Bellevue+School.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Eleven years after her death, the City of Richmond tore down her Church Hill mansion to build the Bellevue School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590579769994-L30QCPCMBFKSD1KJC77K/ch+22+-+going+down+Broad+St.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Gordon got back in the Delta and headed west on East Broad Street. . . . He coasted down steep Church Hill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590581214412-MAB0RMU31FDCKUNQMR4X/ch+22+-+Soldiers+Section+ironwork.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Iron had been molded into fence posts in the shape of four stacked mussel-loading rifles, their barrels shrouded by a Confederate battle flag and a kepi on top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590093184100-M1ZCNJPT33EKFGGQ5CAZ/ch+22+-+visitor+center+II.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery The only building on the grounds today was a boxy, light brown brick Greek Revival built in 1909 as an outpost for the US Weather Bureau that now served as an NPS visitor center and a Civil War medical museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590580780847-IB4Q6PE08LLDK8WAMCM1/ch+22+-+south+side+of+Broad.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Broad Street fifty years ago was the commercial center of the city and downtown Richmond’s unofficial dividing line between whites and blacks. To the segregationist holdouts, the south side of Broad Street was still the white side, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590579583271-TKU6YHUGDTXWRXXM50OM/ch+22+-+Chimborazo+river+view.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery From this vantage point, Gordon caught a glimpse of the river where in 1607 Captain Christopher Newport led an expedition, ten days after going ashore at Jamestown, to the falls of the James. On the fall line, Chief Powhatan’s son Parahunt welcomed Newport and his twenty-three men, including John Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590752252198-TDRCAJ7VHNF22AOO116V/ch+22+-+SHC+last.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery “Good day then.” Gordon tipped his slouch hat and walked briskly back to his car, leaving Crazy Bet in the field of the dead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590093359966-USNXN34OB9D560DC87YY/ch+22+-+Chimborazo+rail+yard+view.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Rather than going directly back to the farm, Gordon couldn’t resist taking in the Chimborazo Hill overlook for a minute. . . . The view of a rail yard, warehouses, and the urban-renewal housing of Fulton Bottom wasn’t much, but the topography was powerful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590580929360-480EPOIQ54KZFIIJX7WI/ch+22+-+Shockoe+Cemetery+brick+wall.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery He found Hospital Street and parked his car behind a clean white Cadillac along a high brick wall, protecting Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond’s first municipal cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590092286211-XWU3IFSC5LO8QWSQ8FRN/ch+22+-+CVC.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Gordon drove Jimmy and Hezekiah to the Richmond National Battlefield’s Chimborazo Visitor Center where the two boys volunteered every Thursday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590580390048-KAEHN1RB28DTVWU85992/ch+22+-+Africian+Burial+Ground.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Conveniently located beside the gallows was the African Burial Ground. Most of this eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black cemetery was covered over when I-95 was constructed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590581084663-976ZVPR5LVH1BJ7NQH6G/ch+22+-+stones+of+rememberance.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery He walked up the brick pathway as Sy reached out to place a pebble of remembrance on the top of a tombstone among other pebbles that had been left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590580854110-3NBGARH2ZEHQS97AA5VZ/ch+22+-+north+side+of+Broad.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery and the north side was still the black side. The line wasn’t as clear as it used to be, but poor black people still waited for the bus along Richmond’s main thoroughfare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590581279123-E1HYNJPLUYY53ASY06TC/ch+22+-+Soldiers+Section+fence+section.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery The fence sections between the stacked arms were formed into crossed swords with laurel wreaths hanging from them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590751539997-W6VM1389Y2UJ7ZY50KFI/ch+22+-+Van+Lew+grave.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery He strolled down a path between the headstones and saw a large rock, shaded by a magnolia and a tulip tree, marking the grave of the North’s most successful spy during the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590581003286-OIBL3FATMDRQTD690I6T/ch+22+-+Hebrew+Cemetery+sign.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery When the Hebrews filled up their own cemetery at the base of Church Hill, they expanded to Shockoe Hill before the Gentiles in 1816. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590752129275-7LG0YL2VU9ZLPWLXU7GD/ch+22+-+Gilpin+Court.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Gordon nervously looked over his shoulder past the west brick wall of the cemetery at the Gilpin Court housing project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590581147771-AXF70BRLWNYG2A2C48KP/ch+22+-+Soldiers+Section+marker.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Attached to the front of the grave marker, the only one in a large grassy plot, was a memorial tablet with a Star of David at the top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590751215399-6O9OXU6TOIXHPID6FA65/ch+22+-+view+of+Shockoe+Cemetery.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery As they walked out of the graveyard, Gordon looked across the street at Shockoe Hill Cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590579831048-C941EXUJ9ZREB6DM8VGY/ch+22+-+Shockoe+Bottom+on+Broad.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery then moved across the paved-over rich bottomland where Shockoe Creek used to run. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590751392748-VRQT3UD5EU90LMHRKBF1/ch+22+-+JM+grave.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Gordon continued on, passing the grave of John Marshall, the great chief justice of the early nineteenth century who had placed the Supreme Court on equal footing with the other two branches of the US government by issuing court opinions establishing judicial review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590093271542-YBPI590UK8L3LV7OP7KH/ch+22+-+yellow+flag.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Outside flew a plain, dull yellow pennant designating a military hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590580602553-MJOVS2IN56MGM2C9HTV4/ch+22+-+Gabriel+gallows.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Gordon started up Shockoe Hill, passing the site of the city gallows where Gabriel was executed in 1800 for planning his slave insurrection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590751290021-AWRYZ2PJKKJ7G3M8WPF7/ch+22+-+Alms+House.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery The structure, built just before the war, was to be Richmond’s almshouse but instead was pressed into service as a hospital for the Confederacy, initially for Union prisoners of war. In the summer of 1864 when Federal troops shelled and burned Virginia Military Institute, VMI relocated to the almshouse and stayed there until the evacuation of Richmond the following April. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590092372135-0H73Z9NRVQAZBFUMH39H/ch+22+-+Chimborazo+park.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Gordon turned down the music as he turned at Thirty-third and East Broad Streets into the well-groomed Chimborazo Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590752194563-TMFYII299SED1HKRWDN3/ch+22+-+Shockoe+Magonolia.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Gordon reached down to prop up the flower arrangement beside the boulder and heard the crunch of crinoline and fallen magnolia leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590751463377-Y64TM2A6GLTUDQOB09HB/ch+22+-+Van+Lew+sign.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery But Gordon was more interested in visiting a tomb lying further into the boneyard. . . . A arrow-shaped, metal sign pointed the way to the grave where he wanted to pay homage. Written in white paint on the black background of the sign was the name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590580667598-TCQHNPL9ZULDLGXX8IX1/ch+22+-+Church+Hill+downhill.JPG Ch 22 - Chimborazo & Shockoe Hill Cemetery Still riding on Broad Street, he gazed skyward at the big downtown buildings. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-23-oakwood daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590924700560-9POGJ5GPZFTZ21UONIRQ/ch+23+-+obelisk+and+cannon.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery Pat followed the long, curved, flat lane past the obelisk and two cannons in the middle of the dead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590925233724-UIYBE1TB2GJ9C2HK9VI2/ch+23+-+mimosa.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery He stopped under the trees at the head of a turnaround circle adjacent to a woods fringed with blooming mimosas disseminating their honey-fruit scent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590925003530-OGZDLH0UXWWYNZX6U8PN/ch+23+-+bandstand+plaque.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery Below the bandstand a plaque read: 1861–1865. Lest we forget. The sacrifices and devotion of the women of the Confederacy. Lee Chapter 123. United Daughters of the Confederacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590924325864-ZX0DBYNLHO1YD07V2HNR/ch+23+-+Oakwood+Cemetery+entrance.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery A half-mile down, they entered through the twin iron gates of Oakwood Cemetery, anchored by square stone pillars, capped by sculpted upside-down giant acorns with oak leaves on their sides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590925126716-PI0MJM8B62VIPD0PW95L/ch+23+-+road+dropoff.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery With Confederate dead now on both sides of the road, the pavement dropped off and turned into dirt and gravel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590925425535-8H27WLMOVAL6CGJ0DXCT/ch+23+-+last.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery He paused and looked back over the mass of little stones. “Let’s get out of this lonely place.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590924471296-FV9TZDQ5TDLFYQDE2NJ0/ch+23+-+RNC.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery During the war, thousands of Union soldiers who weren’t sons of admirals were buried at Oakwood, mostly the Belle Isle prison camp dead. After the war, 3,200 of them were removed and buried at the Richmond National Cemetery, four miles away on Williamsburg Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590924551090-KA7GX1HNDJE9AND7JZFL/ch+23+-+Oakwood+markers.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery The only Civil War soldiers left at Oakwood were Confederates. . . . The graves were marked with small cubes of marble, rising about six inches out of the ground, providing only enough room to engrave three identification numbers on their sides to mark three separate graves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590924231817-EHGZSCRH1IU0RLAMLUWI/ch+23+-+Chimborazo-Oakwood+Historic+District.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery The road cut through the Oakwood-Chimborazo Historic District, a blend of assorted architecture mixed in with the dilapidated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590924616958-KJU9R398K74M4L7K7D6P/ch+23+-+headstones+II.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery The stones at first were unimpressive, but once a visitor realized that each tiny monument represented the graves of three Confederate soldiers, the gravity of the ground kicked in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590924776394-374XO7TO3UYGL5HIAM80/ch+23+-+bandstand+II.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery On the left was a bandstand, once used for the large Memorial Day celebrations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590925181889-H9B93Y8QNSAJHYGOEMA6/ch+23+-+turnaround+II.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery Pat took the left fork over a low concrete curb, following it into a grove of southern red oaks and pignut hickories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590924400488-TT7N1MFBCLF8A6PKWSY2/ch+23+-+Oakwood+Cemetery.JPG Ch 23 - Oakwood Cemetery Oakwood’s claim to fame came during the war when the Confederates secretly buried Federal Colonel Ulric Dahlgren here. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-24-petersburg daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590927074932-JFYLVRHIP92MSA0G515K/ch+24+-+PNB+Maine+monument.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park Beyond the earthen fort, at the beginning of the nine-month Siege of Petersburg, the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery took the heaviest regimental loss in a single action during the war, losing over 70 percent of its men in ten minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590926801186-AMR6N3C3Z3MKXK5IYXKI/ch+24+-+PNB+do+not+enter+sign.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park They passed the one-way exit gate of the Petersburg National Battlefield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590927132767-HVVQ473Y64EZYPKPPB0G/ch+24+-+PNB+five+cannons.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park The brothers rode through the rolling countryside, with barn swallows swooping in the air and bluebirds sitting on cannons, until they reached the last stop on the battlefield drive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590926573868-HHUKG7IXK8U9MY782EVC/ch+24+-+Train+Station.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park Before the war, the future of Petersburg was bright as the second largest city in Virginia and the seventh-largest city in the South. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590926747960-W22CTWXBB2Z2IUTTATK6/ch+24+-+Kings+sign.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park A mile down the road, Carter and Wendell found their destination and turned in at a tin sign shaped like a fireplace, outlined in busted white neon, proclaiming King's famous BAR ● B ● Q Number 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590926694678-WX7J9316GRMEZJ0YS4YX/ch+24+-+Gowan+statue.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park About a half-mile farther south, they came to a commercial intersection where a statue stood at the foot of the Merchant’s Tire & Auto parking lot. A likeness of Colonel George W. Gowen of the 48th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers was erected by the citizens of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was a rare statue of a northern Civil War soldier in the South. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590926919845-NL5X6K4W1QH9XLUGUPJK/ch+24+-+PNB+railroad+section.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park During the war, Petersburg became Richmond’s lifeline. Its railroads connected the capital of the Confederacy to the rest of the South. Grant couldn’t capture Richmond, but he could cut the capital off from its supply center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590927308835-VSR88FAAVG03F5QJBIZC/ch+24+-+Crater+III.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park Instead of Union troops moving around the breach, they marched into the freshly created 30-foot deep hole for what they thought was a ready-made fortress, but in reality was a deathtrap. Some of those Union troops were black, the first black troops to be deployed in Virginia for a major engagement. The southerners were outraged that the Negro was used against them in this fashion and shot the Union soldiers in the Crater like fish in a barrel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590926861026-JJX3A784DUOWQIQL172Q/ch+24+-+PNB+vistor+center.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park He quickly circled the visitor center parking lot to start the tour drive through one of America’s most significant Civil War battlefields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590926623028-GQKFSB2EIU6U5WCQQH8Q/ch+24+-+Dictator.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park Petersburg became more of a victim of time rather than a victim of war. Grant’s bombardment of the city did minimal damage, and the economy recovered after the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590927023327-VFM3G0YAGOM4T2XNRS2Q/ch+24+-+PNB+Fort+Stedman.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park The Flood brothers drove along the siege line past Fort Stedman, where Lee led his last offensive, checked by Grant before checkmated at Appomattox Court House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590926494046-73UQAQ3LWECNKC4R77GK/ch+24+-+Petersburg+cityscape.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park The Petersburg skyline on the right looked, for the most part, remarkably the same as it did during the Civil War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590927187310-ES8OUVC6H4E6MYKDO92H/ch+24+-+Crater+II.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park Where they found Garnett leaning over a split-rail fence, holding a brown bag and looking into a large, grassed-over hole in the ground. . . . The three men watched over the pit, greatly reduced in size by man and erosion over the years. This was the Crater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590926975597-K3LMC5PHPRQ590Q5TGB4/ch+24+-+PNB+trench.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park To execute this stranglehold, Grant laid siege to Petersburg. Lee held the line, and the misery of modern trench warfare was born. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590927236509-56KKFP6JJU4VU4N7SWA2/ch+24+-+PNB+Crater+mine+entrance.JPG Ch 24 - Petersburg National Battlefield Park A 511-foot tunnel from the Union defense line was dug to this spot by a regiment of Pennsylvania coal miners. The miners placed 320 kegs containing 8,000 pounds of gunpowder directly underneath the Rebel trenches. Barely before sunrise on July 30, 1864, the powder was ignited, producing a mushroom cloud and a 170-foot gap in the Confederate line. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-25-blandford-church daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590950052311-HSUCQ3DGUU2A967HINJS/ch+25+-+Blandford+state+marker.JPG Ch 25 - Blandford Church & Cemetery Once past the arch entrance, there were mass graves by southern state on both sides of the road, marked only by two-and-a-half-foot-high rectangular stone pillars etched with the name of the state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590950224890-MI8WJ9F46AJC4P4Y6TO5/ch+25+-+Blandford+ironwork+between+plots.JPG Ch 25 - Blandford Church & Cemetery They walked between two elaborate iron fences, surrounding family squares. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590949986198-PWN6VRDXV889KA15UUFN/ch+25+-+Blandford+arch+back.JPG Ch 25 - Blandford Church & Cemetery on the back Awaiting The Reveille. Blandford Cemetery housed approximately 30,000 reinterred Confederate dead, mostly from the Siege of Petersburg, more Confederate graves than anywhere, most unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590950112425-Z6PW3SVRNGC19XNWFPSI/ch+25+-+Blandford+bandstand.JPG Ch 25 - Blandford Church & Cemetery Ballard drove the car up Memorial Hill to a bandstand once used for the June 9 ceremonies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590950328261-ZCL747HJLNKMWIRT4AGY/ch+25+-+Blandford+ironwork.JPG Ch 25 - Blandford Church & Cemetery part of the funerary art of the Victorian era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590949919224-AN6A60R0CLJVS8QUP16L/ch+25+-+Blandford+arch+front.JPG Ch 25 - Blandford Church & Cemetery They motored around to the back of the church and down the hill through the memorial granite arch for the Confederate dead with the inscription on the front Our Confederate Heroes and https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590950174040-R6XUY7PM5EP1QQ5BLFPV/ch+25+-+Blandford+Churchyard+with+phone+tower.JPG Ch 25 - Blandford Church & Cemetery The pungent smell of boxwoods and cedars sifted through the air as a mockingbird sang. It was a perfectly serene place if you ignored the sound of the traffic on Crater Road and the sight of a cell phone tower rising over the dead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590949795792-K1P091NBYT2NRRH5BUAT/ch+25+-+Blandford+2.JPG Ch 25 - Blandford Church & Cemetery The colonial brick church, completed in 1737, sat on the highest hill in Petersburg and was the oldest building in the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590949580263-AWXLAEMX8OPCAEIFB8KW/ch+25+-+Blandford+church+and+cemetery.JPG Ch 25 - Blandford Church & Cemetery In 1864 all of the able-bodied men were off to war, and the town’s militia of 125 old men and young boys held off 1,300 Union cavalrymen until reinforcements arrived. They prevented a quick Federal victory, forcing the longest land siege in North American history. A commemorative service was held every June 9 at Blandford Church and Cemetery about a mile northwest of the Crater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590949853124-VRADPMIYLGWJ7V7BCMRL/ch+25+-+Blandford+stainglass+window.JPG Ch 25 - Blandford Church & Cemetery “The church is closed for the day, but you really need to come back to see its Tiffany windows. It has a Tiffany dedicated to every Confederate state except Kentucky.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590950280701-JNA9530S6BA28CW5T3LI/ch+25+-+Blandford+Ironwork+plots.JPG Ch 25 - Blandford Church & Cemetery Blandford was well known for its decorative cast and wrought iron fences, https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-26-old-towne-petersburg daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590950781554-RPDSRBIZPLBK6ELZBEZD/ch+26+-+Old+Towne+rowhouse+2.JPG Ch 26 - Old Towne Petersburg Because of a fire in 1815, most residents and businesses rebuilt with brick, leaving Petersburg with a historic district noteworthy as any in Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590951183280-FUFLS36ZP89BRCD5WR84/ch+26+-+Seige+Museum.JPG Ch 26 - Old Towne Petersburg Among these historic buildings, just down from the Siege Museum on Bank Street, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590951100697-29Y52BVGSEOC995N77VD/ch+26+-+old+town+street.JPG Ch 26 - Old Towne Petersburg Petersburg most likely would do another phoenix act in the future, prompted by a real estate boom caused by the expansion of Fort Lee to the east. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590951234013-W89I3REUPC2TVWLXY9RJ/ch+26+-+Alexanders.JPG Ch 26 - Old Towne Petersburg was Alexander’s. From the outside, it looked like it was closed, but on the inside it was alive with diners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590950644659-43D1HUTGWPKNEJUS7DHI/ch+26+-+Old+Towne+Petersburg.JPG Ch 26 - Old Towne Petersburg About a mile northwest of Blandford Church lay Old Towne Petersburg. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-27-pocahontas-island daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590951849411-VGV53U49PZT2GSLQBU2B/ch+27+-+R%26P+Railroad+abutments.JPG Ch 27 - Pocahontas Island Fattah pointed upstream to the old railroad bridge abutments in the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590951643666-HUYC9LFPUY79M35JRR9T/ch+27+-+JJR+sign.JPG Ch 27 - Pocahontas Island Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a leading figure in the Back-to-Africa movement and the first president of Liberia in 1848, grew up here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590951795598-TR6WYPRDDESUZEKJFRHW/ch+27+-+Appomattox+River.JPG Ch 27 - Pocahontas Island The Appomattox was about sixty yards across here, just down from its fall line and just above the roar of the I-95 traffic crossing it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590951742431-ATLR0KZMCB8SPZYRQTOG/ch+27+-+Pocahontas+Chapel.JPG Ch 27 - Pocahontas Island The community’s centerpiece was the Pocahontas Chapel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590951693481-2B3EHV4XNP6MLVU7552K/ch+27+-+PI+houses.JPG Ch 27 - Pocahontas Island Despite the historical and cultural value of Pocahontas Island, in 1971 the white-majority Petersburg City Council tried to zone its residents out of existence. . . . Fewer than 100 residents held on, mostly elderly, living in meager homes on the island’s five streets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590951477061-UXGE95TMDIYL01ME0KKF/ch+27+-+oldest+sign.JPG Ch 27 - Pocahontas Island Below the streets of Old Towne Petersburg lay Pocahontas Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1590951593298-7CG9PDDFSMJNNGJNVFM0/ch+27+-+Pocahontas+Island+houses.JPG Ch 27 - Pocahontas Island Before the Civil War, thousands of freed men and women called Pocahontas Island home. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-28-fortifications daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591012079809-RNJFF6PQRDHAVCE4A3JQ/Ch+10+-+Fraise.JPG Ch 28 - Fortifications Over the past four days, Raleigh had dug a six-foot trench behind the fraise around Pat’s house and had taken the dirt to build a six-foot earthen wall between the trench and house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591012206777-NAZGVZN49QUH86MERCJX/ch+28+-+MCV.JPG Ch 28 - Fortifications “Let’s drop the hostilities for a minute, Raleigh. Gayle is sick. I checked her into the VCU Medical Center.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591012137116-7DX1EMX755WA6QEYO615/ch+28+-+cheval-de-fraie.JPG Ch 28 - Fortifications In front of the fortress, along the side of the hill, were layers of abatis, cheval-de-frise, and tripwires. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-29-ashland daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591098025898-ZE4GWUAJDEI8ZEBGWI42/ch+29+-Center+Street.JPG Ch 29 - Ashland Gordon chauffeured Hezekiah down Ashland’s Railroad Avenue that turned into Center Street, where the train tracks ran in the middle of the road. Mineral springs were discovered in Ashland, and in the 1840s, the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad developed the town as a resort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591098175081-GC62LABG3ZHLPDZMLQEH/ch+29+-+RMC+with+fountain.JPG Ch 29 - Ashland Randolph-Macon College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591098336325-J7BPTQ5SLAZEIZNLBYB5/ch+29+-Trash+Train+light.JPG Ch 29 - Ashland Out of New York, a stinking trash train of dirty green and gray containers caught up with Gordon and Hezekiah as they rode down Center Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591098427919-CURRIM3D0Y6XYB14AWQ8/ch+29+-Tree+Swing.JPG Ch 29 - Ashland Kim sat on a swing, suspended from the limb of an old walnut tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591098557878-2UFA0DBVDF71STP2EK0Y/ch+29+-+Amtrak+Train.JPG Ch 29 - Ashland When the express started back up, Kim stepped out in the middle of the empty street and waved to her father as he pulled by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591098110333-QFNX1FAVGA8FIB1CFP80/ch+29+-+Victorian+House.JPG Ch 29 - Ashland But the springs no longer existed, and left beside the tracks were turn-of-the-twentieth-century homes, a commercial center built after a fire in 1893, and https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591098495832-PR8XVW6ZX04Q3GSUOGJK/ch+29+-+Ashland+Train+Station.JPG Ch 29 - Ashland When Kim and Hezekiah reached the sidewalk, they could see the train stopped a half a mile away, dropping off and picking up passengers at the Ashland station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591098628427-ODAX79WQZHGEJ93ASRWO/ch+29+-+back+of+train.JPG Ch 29 - Ashland Kim’s dress fluttered around her light, lithe form from the wind produced as the train swept past, and she and Hezekiah kept waving until the last passenger car was gone. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-30-hopewell daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591446305150-1L400MMJURQZ6NMM195A/ch+30+-+Hopewell+industrial+pit+II.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ The city sat on prime waterfront real estate at the confluence of the James and Appomattox, but the air and water had been heavily polluted by industry. . . . Hopewell had cleaned up most of its act. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591449097492-9IRM0LQXV975U6LY8UM2/ch+30+-+City+Point+beach.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ down to the beach as a bald eagle soared in the upper reaches of the blue sky and cumulous clouds hung on the horizon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591446363170-CUCGJN44VX1EMHBQE9KZ/ch+30+-+Beacon+Theatre.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ Gordon hung a left at the Beacon Theatre and headed to City Point where the rivers came together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591448647989-HR9QT8BVI4GRD913M8FE/ch+30+-+split-rail+II.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ After parking his car on Pecan Avenue, Gordon straddled the short split-rail fence bordering the park service site and walked across a large lawn with his slouch hat shading his eyes from the sun, still a long way from setting in the summer sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591446717845-F01O4T2CH5HENH5QU53T/ch+30+-+Appomattox+Manor.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ Today, the grounds of City Point were empty except for Appomattox Manor, a plantation house built in 1763, overlooking the blue wide water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591448758649-S33Q352S7OHDHB0QBWRN/ch+30+-+Grant%27s+cabin+2.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ From behind the cabin, Bet Van Lew emerged. She had changed her dress from heavy morning to full mourning, allowing white trim and a white collar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591446094859-JUZ1CBM60QI3JUS8JKOA/ch+30+-+Bermuda+Hundred+II.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ Across the peninsula in the spring of 1864, Confederate General Beauregard’s men dug an eight-mile earthwork called the Howlett Line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591448700752-TWL17QRGBEN8PHIJJWGR/ch+30+-+crepe+myrtle+II.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ He cut through an old grassed-over lane lined with crepe myrtles to get to Grant’s cabin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591445874053-ZZLVC5WMR4BKYPRXRJZC/ch+30+-+crossing+onto+Bermuda+Hundred.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ He drove the Delta across the Varina-Enon Bridge over the James River onto the Bermuda Hundred Neck, the peninsula between the James and Appomattox Rivers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591446522571-GJQWL0RW6PPOGQRF0PXY/ch+30+-+beach+alternate+III+shot.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ Cabins and tents of the Union Army blanketed the area, and the army built a half-mile of wharves, serving as many as two hundred ships a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591448927894-JWG1GWSHI186Y01R5YVC/ch+30+-+beach+alternate+shot.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ “I’m sure you know,” Gordon said, “the last meeting of the Trinity of the North took place here on the beach below us. Would you care to stroll down to it, Miss Van Lew?” Gordon offered his arm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591446185663-7V9OF16E75QG3K4D3Y8C/ch+30+-+Appomattox+bridge.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ Gordon took Route 10 east and crossed the Appomattox River into the City of Hopewell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591446782489-JSXWBLGHUFVUT4F6ABV8/ch+30+-+Grant%27s+cabin.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ Besides the big house, there was only one other structure on the property that stood out, a two-room cabin. The small, simple structure of vertical beams and logs, chinked with concrete, was a reconstruction of Grant’s headquarters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591446247981-OU2QYP6822U4X1CBQI6B/ch+30+-+Hopewell+industrial+pit+I.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ Hopewell had been thrown up almost overnight when DuPont came to town in 1913 to build a dynamite factory for the World War I demand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591448836220-M8Q5MUQYJ3Z85W1EH8AQ/ch+30+-+view+from+Grant%27s+Cabin.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ Gordon looked out over the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591446606658-ZOFIC8L3G8BEJ1LU2WYR/ch+30+-+railroad+tracks.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ When the ships unloaded, the goods were placed on railcars. The US Military Railroad Construction Corps had built an eight-mile line to the Petersburg front, supplying a cornucopia to the Federal forces, while the Confederates starved in their trenches a few hundred feet away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591446435072-VH6XOONL7XH8595HJKMI/ch+30+-+City+Point+grounds.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ Between June 1864 and April 1865, City Point became the largest supply base of the Civil War, with over 100,000 troops, and one of the busiest ports in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591448979077-YQDXSMD2PIZSLN984WC8/ch+30+-+bluff+II+with+split-rail.JPG Ch 30 - Hopewell & Grant's HQ They ambled along the bluff and https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-31-drewrys-bluff daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471015806-PEJP6U1YZBZRCYHLLGQA/ch+31+-+Halfway+House+sign.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff A signboard on a high pole announced, “Half Way House Restaurant, est. 1760, FINE DINING.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471123875-BWRXUJLQ4074GSL38JKF/ch+31+-+Drewry%27s+Bluff+trail.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff After finishing their dessert of strawberry shortcake, they drove up the Jeff Davis Highway, following the National Park signs for Drewry’s Bluff, also known as Fort Darling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471227527-EB6LWEZZSHCMQCHDJP8S/ch+31+-+Drewry%27s+Bluff+River+view.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff "The Monitor came up the river during the war. . . . In March 1862, the Monitor fought the Virginia to a stalemate at Hampton Roads in the famous first ironclad ship battle." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471074377-W9TQMY8XFREPO6ZRXPT9/ch+31+-+Halfway+House+door+knocker.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff They walked up the back drive to the house, went down the stairs, and opened the red door with a pineapple doorknocker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591470749346-EX25ZJAAWVBO124OD3XL/ch+31+-+Eternal+Flame.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff To the left, the eternal methane flame burned above the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Facility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591470800013-AC928YON8CJMHFZAV4YZ/ch+31+-+pop+art+pylon.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff Farther down, they passed the Philip Morris plant, where Marlboros were made. The manufacturing facility, marked by a 144-foot pop-art pylon, proudly advertised its cigarette brands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591470694533-VFBHMMQDM2EQYPX0ELRK/ch+31+-+I-95.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff They crossed the James River on the Interstate-95 bridge, heading south into the industrial pit of Richmond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591470850935-4CPT34B6WYE6Y11MZAWE/ch+31-+Highway+1+marker.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff The pike was part of US 1, the major north–south route of the East Coast before the interstate was built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471282147-PEED3RYC0XHFGXYMHDYU/ch+31+-+Drewry%27s+bluff+cannon.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff “The Federals opened fire on the bluff but were no match for the eight Confederate cannons pouring down on them from this ninety-foot cliff.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591470905354-VRROHUAWFMKFXFXHIAB0/ch+31+-+Highway+1.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff About a quarter of a mile up the highway on a hill among the seedy businesses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471339605-IV212SIZX33G50ROPR86/ch+31+-+Drewry%27s+Bluff+fort.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff Pat took her by the hand, and they walked down into the breastworks, gently crushing over last season’s oak leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471173536-K91NOYY39GYMA7L16QBN/ch+31+-+Drewry%27s+Bluff.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff They got out of the truck and walked hand in hand down a wide asphalt path that turned into a brown-pebbled trail, leading to the edge of the fort overlooking the James River, seven miles downstream from Richmond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591470951135-RVJUR7EPIQYCZVAS7Y65/ch+31+-+Halfway+House.JPG Ch 31 - Half Way House & Drewry’s Bluff was an out-of-place white colonial manor with red shutters and a double veranda on the back. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-32-white-house-of-the-confederacy daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591472379466-SAF0E3YLSZ0UWQYK7UXT/ch+32+-+WHC+high+rises.JPG Ch 32 - White House of the Confederacy Varina Davis liked that room the best. She could overlook a garden with fruit trees and take in the sweeping view of Shockoe Valley. No fruit trees now, and no view with these hospital high-rises in the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591472030303-G6VE5U061HV5LVF4Z6FS/ch+32+-+WHC+library+window.JPG Ch 32 - White House of the Confederacy Raleigh pointed to the first-floor window on the left. “Lincoln sat in Jefferson Davis’s chair and drank a glass of water. That was five days before Appomattox and eleven days before Lincoln would be dead.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591472492508-L6WGNDCH0CWR067JV485/ch+32+-+WHC+balcony.JPG Ch 32 - White House of the Confederacy Raleigh shrugged then pointed over to the right end of the porch balcony. “Five-year-old Joe Davis died when he fell from that balcony. The death of that little boy was hard on Jefferson Davis. Winnie and Joe along with the other four Davis children are buried beside their parents in Hollywood Cemetery.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471749325-XT82CHUULPAAXH4OOXU9/ch+32+-+anchor.JPG Ch 32 - White House of the Confederacy Raleigh and Jimmy came out of the entrance of VCU’s Critical Care Hospital built on the rim of Shockoe Valley at the end of Clay Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591472127011-3I3LZT6PNQB50D7GIM0E/ch+32+-+WHC+nursery+window.JPG Ch 32 - White House of the Confederacy Raleigh pointed to the right-corner room on the second floor. “That was the nursery. It was bedlam with the three young children the Davises brought with them to this house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471794300-9WD74A2RJEIASTCXQ764/ch+32+-+WHC+entrance.JPG Ch 32 - White House of the Confederacy They crossed over to the small brick plaza of the Museum of the Confederacy and walked between the anchor and a section of the propeller shaft of the CSS Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591472432708-U8PDWKTZQ7WXWNET7N2J/ch+32+-+winnie+stone.JPG Ch 32 - White House of the Confederacy “Varina bore two children in this house, the youngest one, Winnie, became known as the Daughter of the Confederacy. When Winnie grew up, she was engaged to a Yankee, but Varina talked her out of marrying the Northerner, and Winnie died at thirty-four.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471898185-OBHW9UJYBBF9IWBAR5O7/ch+32+-+WFC+front.JPG Ch 32 - White House of the Confederacy During the war, many Richmonders preferred calling it the Gray House from the color of its stucco exterior because they didn’t want it confused with Lincoln’s residence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591472082774-LEOZQS9MR3A1RLE58H2C/ch+32+-+WHC+fountain.JPG Ch 32 - White House of the Confederacy Jimmy stared at the pennies shining in the bottom pool of the little fountain in front of them, but his dad kept staring at the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471837410-7WONE32TR4DVC5Q7U2MN/ch+32+-+WHC+back.JPG Ch 32 - White House of the Confederacy The White House of the Confederacy, the residence of Jefferson and Varina Davis during the Civil War, was a National Historic Landmark, but not for the nation Jeff Davis intended. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1591471961230-ZSH3O5NHAUVTXZIZIGVQ/ch+32+-+WHC+bench.JPG Ch 32 - White House of the Confederacy Raleigh and Jimmy took a seat back down on the bench. Raleigh looked over at the Museum of the Confederacy. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch33-battlefield-park-road daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593944941091-QPB8WB4T4NNIR8R2F97J/ch+33+-+Fort+Hoke+II.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff The reenactors leaped into the Delta, pulled out, and raced down Battlefield Park Road. They took a left at Confederate Fort Hoke and https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593945222668-L9XIHKOAXN24AKLTE00W/ch+33+-+marina.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff He looked from behind the tree and through the foliage, laying his eyes on the grayish green river below. Beside the river was a long tin shed. He took a closer look. It was a marina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593941945073-SRC88C69VRBY5S9BHTHH/ch+33+-+Fort+Harrison+traverse.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Fort Harrison, a military crest, sat on the highest point between Richmond and Norfolk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593945028157-WHY2HZ1RHYSTJOHTR90J/ch+33+-+Federal+line+leading+to+Fort+Brady.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff followed the Federal line of earthworks paralleling the road leading to Fort Brady. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593945156324-G80UM55LUXPD3HRX43I8/ch+33+-+Fort+Brady+path+split.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Once inside the circle of earthworks, the brothers discovered another traverse in the middle of the fort with a trail going between the inner mound of dirt and the outer breastworks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593943985305-U6GM6GXWEOIQ9YQKCSTV/ch+33+-+traverse+III.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Blocking their line of sight on the far border was a traverse, an inner wall of dirt constructed to thwart artillery shells. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593946407472-ORV5J61UGRR4HB9CXJ9W/ch+33+-+Varina-Enon+Bridge.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff They floated under the almost-mile-long Varina-Enon Bridge that Gordon had driven over the previous day to get to Hopewell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593944859401-0J0UX1IINE31SLXDW60T/ch+33+-+outside+the+wall.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Lichas walked around to the left to access the outside of the wall while the reenactors walked in the opposite direction to slink back into the fort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593942075090-7LI1OHMR194W2DHJ6NQ8/ch+33+-+Fort+Harrison+entrance.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff As Bob pulled in beside the Delta, Lichas caught sight of the reenactors running through an opening in the bulwark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593945428551-VWNTEKSOCODULK5FABXG/ch+33+-+Dutch+Gap.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Gordon guided the Monitor into Dutch Gap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593941558247-V90LMORWCBIXONGJFWMS/ch+33+-+Fort+Gilmer.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Gordon pushed the Delta past the Confederate forts of Gilmer and https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593944728071-DOGYNVRJDI5HABJYSF5F/ch+33+-+rampart.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff They paired back up, walked over to the edge of the fort and onto the top of a rampart, looking out over an eighteen-foot drop-off adjacent to a forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593946344891-704GJB90UUN62HYZMJLF/ch+33+-+Henricus+bluff.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Here early Virginia history was early American history. On the high bluff to the right at the abandoned “Citie of Henricus,” Pocahontas and John Rolfe married in 1614. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593941206181-D94D1AUXZSDNPZ9A0ZE2/ch+33+-+BPR+II.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Battlefield Park Road offered the surreal scenery of Confederate earthworks mixed in with suburban houses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593941799541-1M72MHWASX9HN96CVXKZ/ch+33+-+Fort+Johnson.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Johnson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593942018360-WZB9C3FIT9TLGVSRNA1L/ch+33+-+Fort+Harrison+road+to+parking+lot.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff A few minutes later as the reenactors still sat in the car waiting for Jimmy, they spotted the black Mercedes coming down the road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593945095711-SNORIK6R13DV9KWSH74B/ch+33+-+Fort+Brady+entrance.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Gordon led them into Fort Brady, built by the Federals after they had captured Fort Harrison in 1864. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593945648678-UZ6CXQ00OEEYZAYLR7RK/ch+33+-+grassy+compound.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff But once inside the fort, there was no trace of them, just a flat, grassy compound seventy yards wide and fifty yards long with a few trees providing little shade from the sunlight, piercing the humid, windless air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593945375189-ANPN9FXFQ1WM9XCAE941/ch+33+-+Richmond+Yacht+Club.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff They followed the cliff along its edge as it trailed off to the marina parking lot and walked onto the dock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593941872419-909Q7SJ4JGXXZ22OEMR9/ch+33+-+Fort+Harrison+visitor+center.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff “Take it easy,” Gordon said. “I’ll stop at Fort Harrison, and you can use the bathroom there. . . . Jimmy burst out of the car and darted through a breastwork entrance to a log cabin serving as a visitor center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593946458886-KWLA4VPN3M09CCZF3XWY/ch+33+-+Jones+Neck+turn+in.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff They traveled another mile and a quarter down the river, then ported, leaving the main dredged channel of commerce into the original river’s course around Jones Neck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593946662533-SQK5ZBH4D224AZG6TG5T/ch+33+-+Deep+Bottom.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Great blue herons filled the sky, and a din of insects rose. They traveled to the bottom of the oxbow to the dock of Deep Bottom Park where Hiram waited for them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593946280355-N8HYVY1K2QVBJGE11V2Y/ch+33+-+Varina-Enon+Bridge+from+Henricus.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff The James River was still beautiful after centuries of abuse. This stretch of water between Richmond and Hopewell was one of the most polluted in the state, but also one of the most historic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593946587161-ORJR7HZLN0IOKC242SZX/ch+33+-+pickeral+weed+II.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Once in this backwater, the quiet, flat, murky river came alive with fish jumping and pickerelweed blooming purple along its banks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593944786348-KXCXL9JJEZJ6FXYEVRD7/ch+33+-+Fragile+Earthworks.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff Raleigh shot his revolver from the woods and screamed, “Stay off the earthworks. They’re fragile.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593945285101-BP5RZRQ99DP7F552FDFO/ch+33+-+Fort+Brady+left+trail.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff They stepped down the other side of the earthwork and followed an unmarked trail through the brush to a twenty-foot clay cliff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593945484098-S8CAH0NHD1X1UNDKKYB6/ch+33+-+Dutch+Gap+Cutoff.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff To the starboard was the Dutch Gap Cutoff, the canal started by General Butler’s men in 1864 to bypass the Confederate fort Battery Dantzler on the James River, holding the northern end of the Howlett Line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593946525615-75T8PJ1R8G26D6KE1GTR/ch+33+-+Jones+Neck.JPG Ch 33 - Battlefield Park Road & Dutch Gap Cutoff The neck, formed from a curve in the river, was a thumb-shaped island of swamp forest and tidal flat surrounding a marsh. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch34-richmond-floodwall daily 0.75 2020-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964210115-ES86JDPPR67OIPW67SP1/ch+34+-+Mayo+Bridge.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall Gordon took Fourteenth Street to cross the low-slung, quarter-mile-long Mayo’s Bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964420740-9MREJR6NHB3LCXC7FCSU/ch+34+-+Floodwall+Cauthorne+and+Sampson.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall The asphalt pathway ran beside a chain-link fence, bordering the derelict Manchester Canal in an industrial area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964686457-8O9VWLPRM9HDKY4QPDX8/ch+34+-+osprey.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall and ospreys fished overhead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964857555-WW57UZJTO4ZQ5PIHE1GX/ch+34+-+Floodwall+Walk+underneath+Manchester+Bridge.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall They followed the trail, going under the Manchester Bridge. Once under the bridge, the floodwall turned into a levee, reinforced on the sides with seawall stone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964745820-CFB3CON5ZF6HUSTF923Y/ch+34+-+Floodwall+Walk.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall They continued along the top of the serpentine floodwall, impaling the riverbank. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964796910-C7YZPRNH85PTYN26151O/ch+34+-+Capitol+pediment+II.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall “Hey, there’s the top of the state capitol.” Hezekiah said, sightseeing. He pointed across the river to the pediment tucked in behind the high-rises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964522600-EGJOQ4PJ48RCK30BDC8S/ch+34+-+Floodwall+Railroad+Bridge.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall Walking instead of running, they pressed on but kept turning around to make sure they weren’t being followed while ignoring the best view of the James River and Richmond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964372761-FV0F8RVTM17I043WTRO3/ch+34+-+Floodwall+entrance+II.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall They scaled a couple of short, open wooden fences as fast as they could with Gordon bringing up the rear and hit the start of the not-so-scenic portion of the Floodwall Walk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593963958297-QQ0MVOC9GBAS8CO46FOY/ch+34+-+Canal+and+boat.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall passing a revamped portion of the James River and Kanawha Canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964298847-S7CKMG8885PXOCTJBGJ7/ch+34+-+railroad+station.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall But to their horror, as if on cue, beside the Richmond Railroad Museum, a train started crossing the road and blocked their escape route. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593947031142-DMRN2O0S9KP2X3CSXW58/ch+34+-+New+Market+Heights+sign.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall Beside the historical highway marker for the Battle of New Market Heights, Powhatan Dubel’s outfit, the 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, was sponsoring a commemoration of the battle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593963900486-11DMRKK8J2KNKMTVBU2T/ch+34+-+Floodwall+door.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall He followed the road through a hulking floodwall door, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964581099-HRL9NOF99A9JZ2K2DBQX/ch+34+-+Floodwall+Manchester+Bridge.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall The whitewater pitched in the foreground and the skyline perched in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964141374-CSJ13O1HKSE2BOA0FSKR/ch+34+-+spagetti.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall Under the spaghetti mesh of trestles and overpasses, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964477229-0RKVMI03XCTPYLJHO07W/ch+34+-+Floodwall+Walk+stairs+II.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall They ran up the stairs attached to the side of the floodwall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964915025-0LEEIL7U9GZRM7VQ7PI3/ch+34+-+Floodwall+Walk+R%26PRR+abutements.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall The trail looped around and up to an overlook with a view of a row of brown granite abutments evenly placed across the river. The abutments had supported a bridge for the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964974668-HRFVKG6EHC0UZSNM593Z/ch+34+-+Manchester+Wall.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall Hezekiah, Pat, and Gordon stood at the edge of the overlook built over the first abutment, now a rock climber’s challenge referred to as the Manchester Wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1606053414489-MJ0J1DNKG6DO63BXZSXN/ch+34+-+Intersection+5+%26+Wmsbg+Rd.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall Parked in a car wash lot above the intersection of Williamsburg Avenue and East Main Street, they faced the inbound traffic, waiting patiently for the reenactors to appear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593947555235-33JDSN2Z3IW8M1P0TG6P/ch+34+-+Rocketts+Landing.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall At the city limits, the highway turned into Main Street and dipped to parallel the James River at Rocketts Landing then spiraled back up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593964640282-ETBFS0UX19W1S0MJNKZ6/ch+34+-+cross+bridges.JPG Ch 34 - Richmond Floodwall To the left and right, railroad and highway bridges crossed the river, https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-35-long-bridge-road daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1593965215497-NR5CI1LUJQPVQEBMXGCA/ch+35+-+Long+Bridge+Road.JPG Ch 35 - Long Bridge Road Raleigh set his sights on the Malvern Hill battlefield, five miles away. When they reached the less-traveled Long Bridge Road, they turned onto the narrow lane, the back door to the battlefield the deaf and hapless Confederate General Theophilus Holmes had taken in 1862. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-36-hanover-town daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594456647971-J2GG9MJ8V34Q6U6RD3YZ/ch+36+-+HT+intersection.JPG Ch 36 - Hanover Town Fifty more years went by and the town disappeared. Aunt April’s ancestors stayed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594456530377-8TFW9YT5JQ24XBCWQITX/ch+36+-+HT+marker.JPG Ch 36 - Hanover Town To become less vulnerable from attack by the British during the Revolutionary War, in 1779 the Virginia General Assembly decided to move the state capital inland from Williamsburg. Hanover Town lost the bid to Richmond by a slim margin. At the time, Hanover Town was a busy port on the upper Pamunkey River, but within twenty years the river silted up, preventing ships from reaching its docks. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-37-shockoe-bottom daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594458415214-TLG3WVWSOXZH1H5DTB2P/ch+37+dark+-+hatch+doors.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom Bet pointed across the street to the two open hatch doors in the seventeen-foot-high concrete floodwall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594457934509-ZP3XBQV3VXB4L6LWO2NL/ch+37+dark+-+into+the+night.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom Bet locked arms with Gordon, and they went out the door of the hot club into the warm night, making their way past the unsavory soup of sidewalk cafes and tattoo parlors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594458526712-CZOA7AFHRSXBXSB0W5FL/ch+37+dark+-+stairs+II.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom Bet and Gordon rested on the site of the infamous Libby Prison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594457560882-R1NNOF29UZTUKSZIH9EN/ch+37+-+Shockoe+Bottom+hospital+II.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom During the Civil War, Richmond’s population swelled from 38,000 to over 130,000. The city filled with soldiers, refugees, and opportunists of all stripes. Shockoe Bottom’s factories and warehouses were turned into hospitals and prisons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594457763109-SS523LP2PK6QOT5184WM/ch+37+dark+-+overpasses.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom Gordon found a parking space for the battered brown Falcon under the dark tangle of overpasses in the Bottom, so he and Hezekiah could join the throng. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594457678959-LE8KA6GDEC6IEH5DLIVF/ch+37+dark+-+the+strip+II.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom At night people still streamed on Shockoe Bottom’s thoroughfares, looking for the action among the bars, restaurants, and clubs. Cars jammed up along Main Street, people crowded the sidewalks, and a cop stood on every corner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594458357297-9XC8NX7TPFSOQVQU6QCE/ch+37+dark+-+menorah.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom They turned down Twentieth . . . . As they passed an old tobacco warehouse now serving as the Virginia Holocaust Museum, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594457007324-0PMRI088EDH5QX2K4DFV/ch+37+-+view+of+Shockoe+Bottom.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom Between the downtown high-rises and Church Hill lay flood-prone Shockoe Bottom, the original center of the City of Richmond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594458245425-FZGPH9VTKNGFCHMTXPGW/ch+37+-+Shockoe+Bottom+-+E.+A.+Poe+Headstone.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom Poe was the child of traveling actors. His drunken father abandoned the family when he was an infant, and his mother died in Richmond of tuberculosis the month before his third birthday. Elizabeth Arnold Poe, Edgar’s mother, was buried in St. John’s Churchyard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594458476830-770JBXUJENYSOTCX8Z1D/ch+37+dark+-+Dock+St.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom They went through the near hatch door and sat on brick steps, looking at the train trestle and the dark canal beyond. Below them lit with yellow streetlights ran Dock Street, the same road the Gabrielites had chased Gordon down earlier in the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594457154960-PXL9X83A1N31ITTCAY4A/ch+37+-+Lumpkins+Jail+site+from+Broad+St.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom It was the home of a large slave market consisting of a substantial number of slave auction houses and holding pens, making Richmond second only to New Orleans in the antebellum slave trade. The vilest of these human corrals was Lumpkin’s Jail, known as the Devil’s Half Acre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594458139397-UDCBIH0LOGKM4MBY5J3G/ch+37+dark+-+Poe+Museum.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom They made it up to Twentieth and Main. Across the street sat the Old Stone House, the oldest house in downtown Richmond. The small dwelling, built around 1754, reposed under the dark shadow of a live oak tree and was part of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594457845074-43U0AL13GY7V5H2HS30O/ch+37+dark+-+train+station+II.JPG Ch 37 - Shockoe Bottom Above Gordon and Hezekiah loomed the clock tower of Richmond’s Main Street train station adorned in terra cotta. Gordon looked up at the clock to check the time with his pocket watch. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-38-stuarts-ride daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594464476348-KIKYGBULISP8CDGYP014/ch+38+-+Chickahominy+River+east+II.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army South of the town of Providence Forge, Gordon and Hezekiah took the bridges spanning the two channels of the Chickahominy River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463800381-AIMFKGCXL6VM82Z5U7RP/ch+38+-+Studley+General+Store.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Today, Haw’s Shop is called Studley, after the nearby plantation where Patrick Henry was born, and a mile down the road Gordon parked at the Studley General Store. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594464082626-WPPB7PK3O7IZ1F77J2J2/ch+38+-+Old+Church.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Old Church became known as Stuart’s point of no return in his ride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594462435637-7WYG8BMSFBPJ2WNN9YT8/ch+38+-+Confederate+Fortifictions+parking+lot.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army This island of dirt on the edge of a sea of asphalt was part of the third and outer ring, guarding the northern approach into the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463855284-KMC0KV8DAJOQ2GHPUXG9/ch+38+-+Totopotomoy+Creek.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army They kept southeast, crossing the skinny, swampy Totopotomoy Creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594464732564-JXA1E96POZ9A5OIK3QEE/ch+38+-+Westover+Church.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army “We’re looking for Westover Church, and we’re wondering if you could give us directions?” Mary Beth feigned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594462270662-VW9F1X7JBFHGVNB8RDM1/ch+38+-+Confederate+Fortifications.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army They proceeded north on Brook Road, following Stuart’s route, but traveled less than a mile before pulling into the Brook Run Shopping Center. In the parking lot rose a fifteen-foot-high remnant of the earthworks of Richmond’s Outer Defenses, saved from development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594464421048-LP3D7C4Y24V70DKCBJBR/ch+38+-+Talleyville+II.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army “Talleysville? What are you doing in Talleysville?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463069762-WWUBCGCCWR1UIDZ6R2TH/ch+38+-+No+Trespassing+sign.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Gordon turned north, then east on the country roads with an overabundance of Posted No Trespassing and Private Property signs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594464244381-YJQMR510WWHF8CTVTQXP/ch+38+-+Tunstall%27s+Station.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army But Gordon drove on until they came to the tracks at Tunstall’s Station, leading to White House Landing, McClellan’s main supply base. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594462690933-CMFL495M0ND2TLQ0233G/ch+38+-+Brook+Road.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Gordon and Hezekiah followed Stuart’s trail, crossing over Brook Bridge, passing through motley commercial strips, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463315051-8GM61DLV1RG41G3HFNXG/ch+38+-+I95+Hickory+Hill.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Gordon and Hezekiah crossed the bridge going over Interstate 95, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463486486-T7SBKC16U6RX7TKSFQR9/ch+38+-+Hanover+C.H.+arcade.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Gordon and Ballard shook hands on the large stone tile floor of the arcade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594464545283-77FVGAOF8ASGT7YUW5B5/IMG_0733.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Surveying this landscape at the top of a fire tower, Fattah Absalom with a pair of binoculars looked for the gold Tundra he had lost going across Mayo’s Bridge yesterday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463188968-1738KSBHA3JH46NK05BJ/ch+38+-+VA+Central+RR.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army They traveled across US 1 and went under the Virginia Central Railroad trestle. During the war, the line was a vital link to the Shenandoah Valley, “the bread basket of the Confederacy.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594462021274-O1HEBBOAN4BCZXO54B67/ch+38+-+A.P.+Hill+II.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Gordon turned north, sailing past the A. P. Hill Monument in the middle of the Hermitage Road and Laburnum Avenue intersection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594464668004-R4RPJ7PYDTXL3OB9YXDI/ch+38+-+Wilcox+Landing.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Gordon drove into Lawrence Lewis Jr. Park, fronting the James River. . . . From this landing in 1864, Grant ferried most of his infantry south across the river after failing to take Richmond because of the Cold Harbor debacle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594464611916-85854VRY55AY920CSQBF/ch+38+-+Charles+City+Courthouse+II.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Oblivious they had been detected, Gordon and Hezekiah rolled on into the hamlet of Charles City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594458891929-EMKBQDWZWSHWEW522KB9/ch+38+-Confederate+Ave.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army They drove down Confederate Avenue, a different street with the same name as the one in Hollywood Cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594462988563-T5065DES3KCOO1H2QDQ8/ch+38+-+Rt.+54+field.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army The land opened up to fields of corn, wheat, and soybeans, much of it looking like it did in Stuart’s day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463660444-CQ6IK04570ET585L84XA/ch+38+-+Enon+United+Methodist+Church.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army They switched seats, and Gordon soon had them back on track, passing the Enon United Methodist Church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463740474-W0F6TUHKJMFR0KOXXQ36/ch+38+-+Haws+Shop+monument.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army The banner fluttered on a pole beside a small monument to the twenty-seven unknown Confederate soldiers buried in the churchyard who died in the Battle of Haw’s Shop, a battle fought mostly along the other side of the church on May 28, 1864. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594464152019-9DRANI1X5R1KUQL1HDSA/ch+38+-+Garlick%27s+Landing.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Riding another eight miles in their sidestep course, they came to Steel Trap Road, leading to Garlick’s Landing on the Pamunkey River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594462099673-SOH05TWDUNBAHU672VAE/ch+38+-+Mordecai.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army When Gordon pulled into the Exxon at the corner of Brook Road and Azalea Avenue, Hezekiah knew exactly where they were going. On June 12, 1862, this corner was Mordecai farm, the starting point of Stuart’s ride around the Union Army of the Potomac. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463253366-SLEOXN4RFEPWOLRFLDXV/ch+38+-+Winston+Farm.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Turning onto Hickory Hill Road, the sun flashed in their eyes. In the fields on their left, known as the Winston Farm, Stuart’s men camped after their first full day of riding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463370683-M2MFZL71P1SLAFH5XFNK/ch+38+-+Hickory+Hill.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army and the roadway turned to dirt and gravel. The surface forced Gordon to slow down and creep along the vacant road, transecting forests and fields bordering the 3,200-acre Hickory Hill estate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594464005566-V6ODQZ3QT9A4RGZWHJEB/ch+38+-+Hanover+Tomatoes.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Gordon and Hezekiah, moving on, crossed the commercial strip of Mechanicsville Turnpike and found themselves in the land of the Hanover tomatoes with another two weeks to go before ripening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594462612939-2HD8PYVS5LEOEB1MQD83/ch+38+-+Brook+Bridge+II.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Gordon pointed toward the stream and told the story Hezekiah already knew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594462908000-N1RALB8BTPW05HHLAYZ4/ch+38+-+Kilby%27s+Station.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army bumped over the railroad tracks at Elmont, known as Kilby’s Station during the war. Stuart linked up with the last of his men at this place. Twelve hundred gray horsemen rode north on their assignment to find the right wing of the Federal Army. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463589564-JDQU2TC1KY90K8QKY3NL/ch+38+-+Wisconsin+Monument.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army When Gordon woke up, he saw the monument to the 36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry beside the road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594462752388-95EZNBJ75H81IXLAS6J1/ch+38+-+Chickahominy+upper+reaches.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army and traversing the upper reaches of the Chickahominy River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594462830639-RN78LHHAJUBDPYVVAHYM/ch+38+-+TransAmerica+Bike+Trail.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Continuing on Stuart’s winding course of back roads, they passed cyclists on the TransAmerica Bike Trail and https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594462546035-N4S444MPEDZ68FTX7HZK/ch+38+-+Richmond%27s+Outer+Defenses.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Gordon and Hezekiah took the short path up to the top of the earthworks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594464348740-6FU2IZZ6UKRYEL4VI0W9/ch+38+-+St.+Peter%27s.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army Gordon sped up and turned onto St. Peter’s Church Road. He pulled into the drive of the colonial church, the church of Martha Custis who married George Washington in 1759. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463929797-XCNXLHFVB7954VGOVC47/ch+38+-+Latane%27s+Wound+Site.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army This rural intersection of Studley and New Bethesda Roads, now marked by a septic tank cap, was where Stuart had ordered Latané to lead a charge against a company of Federal pickets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594463417816-6FFGJP0LCZZ2NUIRG6D4/ch+38+-+Hanover+Court+House.JPG Ch 38 - Stuart's Ride around the Union Army “I would like to meet you at Hanover County Courthouse." https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-39-virginia-capitol daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549554533-3BU6YDIQRH6TNVUOE69S/ch+39+-+Capitol+Fountain.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Pat took a right turn at a fountain, surrounded by red roses, to the Bell Tower, partially hidden in tall trees on the edge of Capitol Square. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549451676-7SMA2WAV27XPPY4I7QWE/ch+39+-+CS+Washington+Statue.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church In front of him was Virginia’s Washington Monument, an equestrian statue surrounded by statues of other early prominent Virginians on lower pedestals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549165563-9ZRXZG80XOTTZ96JEZ91/ch+39+-+Capitol+yellow+wall.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Pat walked along the outside of the four-foot-high yellow brick wall, protecting the governor’s place from intruders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549719960-ILO6Z19GPBOJ9V55Q5SZ/ch+39+-+Lee+pew.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Anyone could sit in the Lee family pew now, but in reverence to the general, Hiram always sat back of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549645994-NAC9GWS2L517EXNY8HHI/ch+39+-+St.+Paul%27s.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Across the street from Capitol Square, the congregation knelt in prayer at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, known as the Cathedral of the Confederacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549250828-KZVKBDFGF2WEFQUN7C2B/ch+39+-+Capitol+guard+house.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Powhatan sat in the little glass and wood gatehouse in front of the mansion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594548923512-WXVME1QA9USWT35ESEEG/ch+39+-+Morson%27s+Row.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Pat had borrowed Ann’s powder blue Beetle and parked it on the street behind the Governor’s Mansion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549506417-4I3BKKOKJB0S7Y8W4K41/ch+39+-+CS+steps.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church A squirrel scurried down the wide brick steps, cutting through the Capitol grounds, and Pat did the same. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549778951-3JGYPZXLZT0MWFLU3UXN/ch+39+-+Lee+window.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church His eyes came to rest on the stained-glass window of Moses Leaving the House of Pharaoh. The window had been installed adjacent to the Lee pew to represent General Lee’s decision to refuse the command of the Union Army and to join the Confederacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549396131-IF5IYI7J2CIUM9817258/ch+39+-+Capitol+Front+II.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church America’s first Classical Revival building, started in 1785. Thomas Jefferson designed it as an absentee architect by mailing the plans from France. The building housed “the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World,” and during the Civil War, the white-plastered, neo-Roman temple did double duty as the Confederate Capitol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549335323-SP1KFS8ZB3ZXT1P8PJ1Y/ch+39+-+Capitol+back.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church He tramped along the backside of the Virginia State Capitol, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549084566-AGIGTYN7UGNXR9D8STQJ/ch+39+-+Capital+Square+fence.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church He crossed the road and followed a fence of green-painted, cast-iron spears to an opening where he entered the lush grounds of Capitol Square. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549597336-AVBDVSW4W4XVJNN7W32O/ch+39+-+Bell+Tower.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church The stout sixty-five-foot square brick tower was constructed in 1824 as a guardhouse and signal tower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594549030890-QHP9Z9W0FFOIERTU2014/ch+39+-+Governor%27s+Mansion.JPG Ch 39 - Virginia Capitol & St. Paul’s Episcopal Church The state executive residence was a Georgian structure, finished in 1813, painted a pale yellow. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-40-dabbs-house daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594585629368-WMYB7EWCDWIPF2MDJVXM/ch+40+-+Dabbs+House.JPG Ch 40 - Dabbs House The Dabbs house sat out on Nine Mile Road. The brick manor painted white was a Henrico County museum and visitor center. In June 1862, the home served as Robert E. Lee’s first headquarters as the new commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594585849697-MSDSN266QWZ4C355W7JX/ch+40+-+Lee+HQ+flag.JPG Ch 40 - Dabbs House Hiram had temporarily taken down the American flag and ran up General Lee’s headquarters flag. The HQ flag flickered thirteen stars in the shape of a rounded A, symbolizing the Ark of the Covenant on a canton of blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594585786536-AH1Z6OXPMXFOZT0CXF4U/ch+40+-+Dabbs+house+2.JPG Ch 40 - Dabbs House In front of the Dabbs house, a long folding table was set up in a patch of grass under a red maple, surrounded by a circular driveway. Behind them stood three flagpoles, normally flying the American, the Virginia, and the Henrico County flags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594585691659-NX3NVOH40H9L5TICSLAR/ch+40+-+Seven+Pines.JPG Ch 40 - Dabbs House Lee got the job on June 1 when General Joseph E. Johnston was wounded at Seven Pines. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-41-malvern-hill daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594586231334-OAKEK9IYSW2FFHRWBCH1/ch+41+-+Malvern+Hill+cannon+row.JPG Ch 41 - Malvern Hill Battlefield The Federal cannons blew holes into the Confederate infantry line with exploding canisters, dispersing deadly shrapnel. The Confederates called it “canned hellfire.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594586045724-NQLGRDN25CKAGS68548P/ch+41+-+Malvern+Hill+slave+cabins+site.JPG Ch 41 - Malvern Hill Battlefield They had bivouacked on the Malvern Hill battlefield among the sweetgums, where two slave cabins stood in 1862. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594586093878-RZUAR7MHRTPW1RW3V07V/ch+41+-+Malvern+Hill+road+and+truck.JPG Ch 41 - Malvern Hill Battlefield The father and son passed the time by staying out of sight of patrolling park rangers but could see the occasional civilian vehicle coming and going along the highway that split the battlefield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594586279950-MN8XNJSX3OCL6O2CRUFP/ch+41+-+Malvern+Hill+cannon.JPG Ch 41 - Malvern Hill Battlefield The cannons had the effect of giant shotguns, taking out fifty to one hundred Rebels at a time, blowing men to indistinguishable bits and making accurate casualty counts difficult. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594586167289-05JW04M7YB1EJQUXSFKX/ch+41+-+Malvern+Hill+tourist.JPG Ch 41 - Malvern Hill Battlefield Swatting mayflies still out in June, Raleigh and Jimmy watched a few tourists drive in to see the place where the Confederates had suffered suicidal results by charging uphill in an open field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594586807635-EANVCVU03ZIGPAJAOY24/ch+41+-+Malvern+Hill+Confederate+high+water+mark.JPG Ch 41 - Malvern Hill Battlefield Jimmy rubbernecked the field. The tranquil setting had few reminders of the “majestic murder” that had taken place. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-42-seven-days-battles-backward daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594589253989-PP1ZOM7IGJURY2M6Q5UT/ch+42+-+Willis+Church+Road+II.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward They needed to get to Cold Harbor, and the quickest way was to follow the steps of the Seven Days Battles backward. Leaving the site of the seventh day, the reenactors were well on their way to the site of the sixth, Glendale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276667045-PDI14NZ4190F818PAAJF/ch+42+-+White+Oak+Swamp+Historical+Markers+II.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward “Tie your horses to the historical markers, the keys are in the truck.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594589987373-OCGHFYJEXP1R46HIUPZC/ch+42+-+Willis+Rd+III.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward Once they were out of view, their trot turned into a cantor, and they followed the tree-lined country road, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594589126584-1V31Q9RC9SCJR4D2MXOY/ch+42+-+Across+Malvern+Hill+Battlefield.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward Pat made sure Hezekiah and Jimmy were properly in the saddle before he mounted. They all took off across the battlefield while Julius and Ann stalled the mobsters with charm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276107731-KFM0Y5CK8KXNKIJ0AO5I/ch+42+-+high+corn.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward The reenactors rode out of the gate, continuing north, following the high corn along the highway to the Riddell’s shop intersection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276514227-GYVFIFZIVSI0C93EUO27/ch+42+-+White+Oak+Swamp+Bridge+II.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward They trotted onto the modern highway bridge laid over the black water of White Oak Swamp Creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276994590-W5Y8DGEHL4OI2NQK83BN/ch+42+-+Trumpet+Creeper.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward The reenactors packed back into the truck and headed down Grapevine Road. Trumpet creeper bloomed along the roadside, as the men covered the ground of day four of the Seven Days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595277054895-QP4CHMFCF4K30X12VUXE/ch+42+-+Trent+House.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward The reenactors passed the beige, red-tin roofed Trent house that had served as McClellan’s headquarters. In the field surrounding the house, Thaddeus Lowe had launched his balloons for Union aerial reconnaissance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276190384-BS7Z5325Y77M21WTID7I/ch+42+-+Riddells+Shop+Intersection.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward This junction of country roads was the major objective for General Lee during the Battle of Glendale. Lee displayed his military genius, planning to have his divisions meet at this crossroads to cut McClellan’s retreating army in half. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276345732-5WU0MZO3WND5OBJFNV0W/ch+42+-+to+Elko+Rd.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward The troopers slinked behind the store then got back on the road. They broke into a full gallop, racing past ranch houses with orange daylilies in front and hay fields in the back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276263321-SMOTHWJEI4QSNY44WVDH/ch+42+-+Citgo+Station+II.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward They turned east onto Charles City Road. . . . On the right side of the road was a Citgo station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594590142328-26KEKA52IZIQMC8MO8Q3/ch+42+-+Glendale+Cemetery+house.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward Riding their horses down the driveway past the POW/MIA flag, they went behind the caretaker’s lodge. The lodge now served as the NPS Glendale/Malvern Hill Visitor Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276419127-NIFPCYISFJ1XC4GVE9QV/ch+42+-+White+Oak+Swamp+Hill.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward The reenactors slowed down to descend the hill to the White Oak Swamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595277130672-MO6O3IH57E18XTV3TK2F/ch+42+-+Chickahominy+River.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward Gordon drove over the Chickahominy River at the site of the corduroy Grapevine Bridge built by the 5th New Hampshire Infantry, where so many Civil War soldiers of both sides had passed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594589195754-UNWZPEVSH563HGUCWP1D/ch+42+-+Willis+Church+Road+Intersection.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward When the reenactors made it to the Confederate side of the battlefield, they picked up the pace and cut over to Willis Church Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594590093390-IHKS4LDH8LVY2PC5UCJT/ch+42+-+Glendale+Cemetery.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward For refuge, they entered the two-acre cemetery that interred soldiers from the Civil War to the Vietnam War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594590049750-1ET7AI73G3EI3F8OQLLE/ch+42+-+Glendale+National+Cemetery.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward Raleigh, with the scare in him, urged his pards to put it into a gallop, going another mile until they made it to the Glendale National Cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276601812-N08Z1I0G3RW7IT9W6X0N/ch+42+-+White+Oak+Swamp+II.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward The half-mile hill and the marshy creek at the bottom proved to be formidable physical barriers for Stonewall Jackson, pursuing the Federal Army on day six of the Seven Days, trying to provide reinforcements at Glendale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276896249-3KV4231TRT41BDR1R1DN/ch+42+-+Savage%27s+Station.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward They piled out of the truck among the historical markers, lining the dirt pull off, telling the story of day five of the Seven Days Battles. The reenactors looked past a farmer’s field down into the gently sloping valley where they could see and hear the constant vroom of Interstate 64. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594587304819-EEA0JB3J9Q8F0101OA8H/ch+42+-+airport.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward On the first day of the Seven Days Battles, McClellan’s men had gotten close enough to Richmond to see the city’s church steeples. They attacked at Oak Grove, where the airport is now. McClellan was trying to move even closer to set up siege guns against the city but failed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594587222600-188I7GJLW39ZQZ2PPQ47/ch+42+-+Confederate+artillery.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward barely able to make out the three cannons marking the inferior Confederate right battery. Malvern Hill was the seventh day of the Seven Days Battles. The battles had occurred between June 25 and July 1, 1862. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594587022038-BPA63MXSCRVG03OG1Y3N/ch+42+-+interpretive+shelter.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward The pards picnicked underneath the shade of the small flat-roofed interpretive shelter, positioned behind where the bulk of the Union artillery parked in 1862 during the Battle of Malvern Hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594589067542-9Q51LHDJCRLS8NE17N95/ch+42+-+Beaver+Dam+Creek.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward On the second day of the Seven Days, Lee went on the offensive and attacked the isolated Federal right flank, north of the Chickahominy River near Mechanicsville at Beaver Dam Creek, causing McClellan to withdraw. This set up the next five days of Lee fighting a retreating Northern army. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276736316-KS46G3KVI9M2IZ7O3MKS/ch+42+-+fire+tower.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward They hurried up to Highway 60. Down from the intersection stood another old fire tower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595275946366-OUFURRIN83VT4SQC253H/ch+42+-+Glendale+Cemetery+wall+roses.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward Jimmy ran across the lawn, hoping not to be detected, and peered down to the main road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595276815600-12CXR74CUE90KZ40L850/ch+42+-R%26YR+RR.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward Gordon sped down the road to the Richmond and York River Railroad crossing. . . . The reenactors escaped up the hill to the Savage’s Station battlefield overlook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594587093592-7VUPNXI8BZAZ3PBLPF4E/ch+42+-+thousand-yard+stare.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward They gazed a thousand yards away to the other end of the field of fire, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1594589913587-AJBYETGYR7SNL068QS5I/ch+42+-+Western+Run.JPG Ch 42 - Malvern Hill & The Seven Days Battles Backward crossing the small and slow-moving Western Run. https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-43-cold-harborgainess-mill daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595278435676-U6N3L8EIV2W23FS92JRZ/ch+43+-+Beaver+Dam+Creek+Bridge+II.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields “We’ll just move this social down the road to Beaver Dam Creek.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595280636920-0MI61WCA4NXJP7192FZO/ch+43+-+Gaines+Mill+Trail.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields Jimmy instinctively stood on the edge of the forest as a picket, while the others bolted down the dark trail, slipping on pea pebbles and tripping on exposed tree roots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595281735612-19WLG6GIUTUIAVLFA9I4/ch+43+-+Gaines+Mill+split-rail+fence+II.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields taking a farm road enclosed by high split-rail fencing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595281800605-MXISYZY3ENXRDV27IQEE/ch+43+-+Whitings+Advance+monument.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields At the first break in the fence, they cut across a field to pick up the other end of the loop trail through the forest. Another "Freeman Marker" guarded the trail entrance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595278240538-A4VITUU4FQERSVPTOCUN/ch+43+-+Cold+Harbor+battlefield.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields At the edge of the lot was a meadow, part of a three-mile front where, with the first light of June 3, 1864, at four thirty in the morning, Eastern Standard Time, Federal troops surged through a thick ground fog toward almost impenetrable Confederate earthworks. The Confederate response was a volcanic eruption of firepower, resulting in thousands of Federal casualties. The failed attack turned into Grant’s biggest blunder of the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595277915072-VGW5OSZPR9QJVQ20Q8WX/ch+43+-+Cold+Harbor+Junction.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields Scruffy in appearance, the intersection was the strategic junction of Cold Harbor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595281545403-1DH7ZNKN5ATUL75RD6BE/ch+43+-+Boatswains+Creek+Crossing.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields The reenactors crossed the water where there was no trail and waded through the ferns on the other side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595280718014-2TIGDGCPD5SG1MOS6BYH/ch+43+-+Boatswains+creek.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields At the bottom of the trail, they reached Boatswain Creek, a trickle in a shallow sandy ditch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595280500666-YWX8749W8QXOEBFO4WF6/ch+43+-+Watt+House+road.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields They followed the curvy road down to Boatswain Creek and back up the hill to the National Park’s portion of the Gaines’s Mill battlefield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595278370701-8DCPFE5NQQFB8G78PE9U/ch+43+-+Cold+Harbor+killing+field.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields This evening, there was a party in the killing field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595278119587-4OCACX3V8XUS8JMJBN7H/ch+43+-+Cold+Harbor+Cemetery.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields Across the road was the Cold Harbor National Cemetery, holding Union soldiers who had written their names and addresses on pieces of paper and pinned them inside their coats, so their bodies could be identified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595280358832-Z2UJUSCCN3YOC94ECOER/ch+43+-+Cold+Harbor+VC+III.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields The parking lot emptied. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595280555322-CYJ2RUSR4GJ21L033QQ8/ch+43+-+Gaines+Mill+trail+front+entrance.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields They ran a one-hundred-yard dash from the parking area to the woods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595278173094-VYUG8T8SMPQ65OEISNKG/ch+43+-+Cold+Harbor+Battlefield+%282%29.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields A half-mile farther, Gordon turned into the Cold Harbor portion of the Richmond National Battlefield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595277977433-VIUGAFABU7YP4KHTNJUB/ch+43+-+Garthwright+house.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields They puttered on down the road in the Harvester, past the Garthright house. In this house, Union surgeons had worked for ten days straight in 1864. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595281668684-9DEVM9758GMF2I6L7D76/ch+43+-+Watts+house.JPG Ch 43 - Cold Harbor & Gaines's Mill Battlefields The Gabrielites walked around the woods by passing the restored 1835 Watt house, https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/ch-44-epilogue daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1595282199901-DK02TN1RVVWYK7BRWYZM/ch+44+-+Gettyburg+Dead+II.JPG Ch 44 - Epilogue Gordon beamed...."Hey, I’m feeling so good I’m thinking about driving up to the Gettysburg reenactment in a couple of days. Who’s with me?” Raleigh put on his hat to shade his face from the sun. “I don’t like going up there. They never let you win.” https://www.confederategoldnovel.com/statues-removed daily 0.75 2022-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1598691560163-Q9BDVND40JD1197SJD25/ch+3+-+Jeff+Davis+front.JPG Statues Removed In this 2012 photograph, the Jefferson Davis Monument was intact with the outreaching Jeff Davis Statue, “Miss Confederacy” on top of the pillar, the two bronze plaques honoring the army and navy of the Confederacy attached to the side columns, and the two bronze finials sitting on top of the columns above the plaques. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1597069865287-5JT8U53XCX8BUD2A5TAT/7%2Bleft%2B-%2BMiss%2BConfederacy.jpg Statues Removed In 1907, Vindicatrix, also known as "Miss Confederacy," crowned the 60-foot shaft of the Jefferson Davis Monument. This symbol of Southern womanhood reached for heaven. Beneath her, wrapped around the apex of the pillar was the Confederate motto Deo vindice. Roughly translated, it was Latin for “God will vindicate” and Confederate for “The South was right." On July 8, 2020, "Miss Confederacy" was pulled off her perch by the City of Richmond, along with plaques and finials on the Jefferson Davis Monument. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1605964359976-S0BKAHGV0DGGTMKQNCVW/SR+-+SC+-+Extra+Billy.JPG Statues Removed Governor William "Extra Billy" Smith was the oldest Confederate general to hold a field command at age 65. During the Civil War he was elected Governor of Virginia for a second time. After Richmond fell to Union forces on April 3, 1865, Smith fled. He was captured on May 9 and paroled on June 8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1597069199681-7H4NHPGQC9395ZJ28RYT/2+left+-+Richmond+Howitzer.JPG Statues Removed In 1892 the Howitzer Monument was erected to commemorate the Richmond Howitzers, a Confederate artillery unit on what is now the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. VCU students fondly referred to this statue as the “Tampon Man,” but on June 16, 2020, the Howitzer Monument was torn down by protesters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1602417995578-18XDHM03WRTX8X7FWY62/ch+12+-+Meadow+Park.JPG Statues Removed The First Virginia Regiment formed in 1754 before the American Revolution and was memorialized in 1930 with a statue in Meadow Park in Richmond’s Fan District. The monument commemorated the regiment for fighting in seven wars, starting with the French and Indian War and including the Civil War when it served in the Confederate Army. During the French and Indian War, it was the only colonial regiment incorporated into the British line and had Colonel George Washington as its commander. On the night of June 20, 2020, the bronze was pulled down. The tumbling of this statue came as a surprise to many. After all, it was a sculpture of a colonial infantryman before the Revolutionary War, but the statue did celebrate a regiment that had also fought for the Confederacy. But most likely, the vandals that tore down this statue weren't thinking about the nuances of history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1604231602385-F7SN4NYHOH0MJZJ1IPOZ/SR+-+Columbus+pedestal.jpg Statues Removed The wrath of protesters was not reserved for just Confederates statues in Richmond. Two days later on June 9, 2020, the statue of Columbus in Byrd Park was ripped from its pedestal and thrown into nearby Fountain Lake. Columbus, the pride of Italian-Americans, had become a controversial figure for his near extermination of the Caribbean’s indigenous people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1602417269473-CF4EOY4WKH87QG8MV1SJ/SR+-+Davis+in+black+face.JPG Statues Removed After spattered in pink paint and given a blackface, the statue of Jefferson Davis was toppled by protesters on June 10, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1606046923942-W5D1ZSXN5GLHM6YB3PNL/SR+-+SC+-+McGuire.JPG Statues Removed Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire was best known as the guy that sawed off Stonewall Jackson’s left arm after Jackson was mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville. After the war in 1893 McGuire founded the College of Physicians and Surgeons that eventually merged with the Medical College of Virginia, which today is VCU Medical Center. McGuire remained a pro-slavery advocate until his death in 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1597069495640-2UTJJCLQP1RKD9JHYALO/5+left+-+Stuart.JPG Statues Removed In 1907 the J. E. B. Stuart Monument, the most dramatic of the equestrian statues on Monument Avenue, was dedicated. James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart, called the “eyes and ears of the Army of Northern Virginia,” became the most celebrated cavalryman of the Civil War. He was most renowned for this ride around McClellan’s army. The exploit turned out to be of little military value but boosted Southern morale to see one of their generals ride a circle around the Federals. It didn’t hurt Stuart’s reputation to be young, dashing, and dapper in a red silk-lined, gray cape and with an ostrich plume in his hat. Or that he did his work in the attention-getting Eastern Theater, serving directly under the master Lee. Capping off his career, Stuart was fatally shot in combat, becoming a martyr and a legend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1606049585347-LCB2733CZUCSXUX5F1V7/SR+-+SS+Monument+edited.JPG Statues Removed Finished in 1894, the Confederate Soldiers And Sailors Monument perched on Libby Hill with a commanding view of the James River, where the Confederate Navy Yard had sat on the near bank and the Manchester Slave Docks had sat on the far bank. The Robert E. Lee Monument was originally planned to be positioned on this site before it was decided to place Lee on Monument Avenue. This soldiers And sailors memorial was modeled after "Pompey's Pillar" in Alexandria, Egypt, with a 73-foot pillar composed of 13 granite blocks to symbolize each of the Confederate state and a bronze Confederate private standing on top of the pillar. The memorial stood out as a city landmark on the hill at the end of East Main Street. On July 08, 2020, the 17-foot high statue of the Confederate private was taken down from its pedestal by the City of Richmond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1605359680707-0BR5O2FH5NAHCP605M4P/SR+-+Rumors+of+War.JPG Statues Removed In response to the Stuart statue and other Confederate statues, the artist Kehinde Wiley produced Rumors of War. On December 10, 2019, it was unveiled at the entrance of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts about a third of a mile away from Monument Avenue. Wiley’s work features African Americans in classical poses. Rumors of War is a statue of a young Black man, sporting dreadlocks in a ponytail, jeans ripped at the knees, and Nike high-top sneakers, riding a horse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1605963577774-WMSPNLVHSCV0JXR5THY5/ch+39+-+Capitol+back.JPG Statues Removed General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/e35fc64a-1faf-4f46-86ff-bb66b130d0e2/SR+-+Lee+Pedestal+Rubble.jpg Statues Removed - Make it stand out On December 5, 2021, Virginia’s Democratic Governor Ralph Northam announced the 40-foot-tall pedestal that had held the Lee Statue on Monument Avenue would be removed and the state land it sat on would be transferred to the City of Richmond. Many thought it was a preemptive strike to prevent Republican Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin, who would be sworn into office on January 15, 2022, from taking any delaying or restorative actions concerning the pedestal, the statue, or the ground they occupied. Youngkin had been elected in part because of the backlash from the statue removals. By December 31, 2021, the pedestal had been dismantled and hauled away with a tentative agreement for the all the Monument Avenue Confederate statues and pedestals to be given to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia based in Richmond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1605444669724-4N370VYN1IXBEHURKMNP/ch+38+-+A.P.+Hill+II.JPG Statues Removed What’s next? There is one other Confederate statue that the City of Richmond has its eyes on. A statue of General A. P. Hill stands on top of a pedestal without a horse. Hill had the tendency to arrive on battlefields in the nick of time to sway the fight for the Confederates. He was shot dead from his mount during the Petersburg evacuation. In 1891 as part of a real estate promotion, Hill was reburied from Hollywood Cemetery to the middle of the intersection of Hermitage Road and Laburnum Avenue. The monument was placed over his remains, eternally exposed to the exhaust of the busy roadways. This interment has posed a special challenge to the city to remove the monument and because of it, the removal is on hold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1605444097263-GA4DCQ0W1C44I03WT97X/SR+-+Joseph+Bryan+2.JPG Statues Removed 1911: Joseph Bryan statue installed in Richmond's Monroe Park, which is now adjacent to Virginia Commonwealth University's main campus. In recent years the statue had been hardly noticeable under trees and off path. Bryan was best known as the first owner of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and other Richmond newspapers. Bryan was also an unreconstructed Southerner and a "Lost Cause" enabler who served with Mosby's Rangers during the Civil War. On July 9, 2020, the Joseph Bryan statue was removed by the City of Richmond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1597577607121-UNMGTWKVQVL1KJ4UZFYB/ch+3+-+Monument+Ave+-+Jeff+Davis+Statue.JPG Statues Removed The Jefferson Davis Memorial on Monument Avenue was unveiled in 1907, featuring a bronze figure of Davis in an oratory pose. Jefferson Davis was the one and only President of the Confederate States of America. In 2018, Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney’s Monument Avenue Commission recommended the removal of the Davis statue because it was the "most unabashedly Lost Cause in its design and sentiment." For Confederate apologists, the Davis statue was an easy compromise, a sacrificial target for removal, since Davis was the only non-Virginian on Monument Avenue. Davis was viewed more as an inept politician who had lead the Confederacy to ruin rather than as a battlefield hero. The attitude was you can have Davis, but we get to keep Lee and Jackson on the street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1597069279724-HX8FZL9CY0TYLV51PXEO/image-asset.jpeg Statues Removed In 1919 the Stonewall Jackson Monument was unveiled on Monument Avenue, depicting the Confederate general on his horse Little Sorrel. Jackson was the best-known Confederate commander after Robert E. Lee. Military historians regard Jackson as one of the most gifted tactical commanders in U.S. history. On July 1, 2020, the Virginia law went into effect that allowed localities to remove or alter Confederate monuments in their communities. However, it required a 60-day administrative process with public input before any action could be taken. But Richmond mayor Levar Stoney wasted no time. He issued an order to remove the four Monument Avenue statues sitting on city-owned land, citing “emergency powers” to protect public safety because of the recent civil unrest, sparked by the killing of George Floyd. The Stonewall Jackson statue was the first go on July 1, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1633172415240-MD7G8KWMJLIIM6CTOE0S/Lee+pedestal.jpeg Statues Removed - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1597069340232-YGYFQJDC39CF5BTICPL1/4+left++-+Maury.JPG Statues Removed In 1929 the Matthew Fontaine Maury Monument was the last Confederate memorial to be erected on Monument Avenue. The monument was an attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of the South rather than an attempt to convince the people of the South that their treason during the American Civil War had been a noble cause. It highlighted Maury's achievements as an oceanographer, which were extensive. Alas, Maury also owned the dubious distinction of fleeing to Mexico after the Civil War, where Maximilian, the Austrian emperor of Mexico, appointed him as "Imperial Commissioner of Colonization". Maury and Maximilian's plan was to entice former Confederates to immigrate to Mexico. Once this scheme fell apart, Maury went to England then returned to the U.S in 1868 after pardoned by the federal government and accepted a teaching position at the Virginia Military Institute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1601200823124-NZSOCGW0K4BW7LN8S0KD/SR-+Lee+still+up.JPG Statues Removed Nine days after the killing of George Floyd and in reaction to the protests that followed, on June 4, 2020, Governor Northam ordered that the statue of Robert E. Lee be removed. The state of Virginia had legal jurisdiction over the the Lee monument because it stood on state-owned land inside the city of Richmond. This kicked off a legal battle that ended 15 months later when the Virginia Supreme Court ruled 7-0 to reject the appeals to reverse Northam’s order by five property owners living near the statue and a descendant of those who donated the land for the statue. The Lee statue was taken down on September 8, 2021. But lesser Confederate statues fell during the litigation of Lee. What follows is a story of statues torn down or taken down in chronological order of removal in Richmond, and the statues that remain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1598692007705-DP779UIYMR2ZCNHX9KSN/SR+-+Jeff+Davis+Monument+in+full.JPG Statues Removed July 8, 2020: The partially deconstructed Jefferson Davis Monument, graffitied and stripped of its statuary, plaques, and finials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1605964576964-5DAY7M2N67L5UR0ZEEUA/SR+-+SC+-+Byrd.JPG Statues Removed 1976: The Harry F. Byrd Sr.’s statue was the most controversial of all the statues placed in Virginia’s Capitol Square, most likely because it involved more recent history. Byrd was one of the South's most prominent segregationists in the 1950s and '60s. After the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954, Byrd, a former Virginia governor and at the time one of its U.S. Senators, hatched a campaign of “massive resistance” against desegregation resulting in the closing of many Virginia schools rather than integrating them. Ironically, the Byrd statue stood just three statues down from the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial, a monument commemorating protests to bring about school desegregation, erected in 2008. The Virginia legislature and Gov. Northam decided they had had enough and approved the removal of the statue. The 10-foot-tall bronze of Byrd was removed along with his pedestal on July 7, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1601203497290-WG61OIH650EQUTPP7VD6/SR+-+Wickham+pedestal.JPG Statues Removed The empty pedestal for the statue of Confederate cavalry general Williams Carter Wickham by Edward Virginius Valentine in Richmond's Monroe Park, adjacent to Virginia Commonwealth University's main campus. The statue was installed in 1891, a year after the Lee statue was erected, but was the first Richmond Confederate statue to be toppled on June 7, 2020, 12 days after the killing of George Floyd. Protesters did not wait for July 1, 2020, so the City of Richmond could act on removing the statue legally. They took the matter into their own hands, and with the statue only ten feet off the ground, Wickham was low-hanging fruit to pull down with ropes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1633256551469-IFM4LDU14OW59MYFJSM7/Maury+pedestal.jpeg Statues Removed - Make it stand out The statue of Maury sitting was removed on July 2, 2020 by the City of Richmond. The allegorical globe behind and above Maury would remain in place for another week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1605361073080-JH6BZZ2EBWCUMLXEM3N7/SR+-+Stuart+Removed.JPG Statues Removed On July 7, 2020, the J. E. B. Stuart statue was removed by the City of Richmond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7ce9ae4aef7b5f9345fa18/1605442027024-YOJK77ZHRUFYMXCZT0OF/SR+-+Maury+Globe.JPG Statues Removed 1929: The Maury Monument globe sat on the upper pedestal above the statue of Matthew Fontaine Maury. The earth is tilted on its axis with allegorical figures at its base, caught in a storm on land and sea but projecting hope for the future. The sculptor said it symbolized the "sphere of Maury's mind" to highlight his scientific achievements. 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