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A Conversation with Dave Ruth, Richmond’s Retiring Superintendent (part four)
(part four of five) Earlier this week, Dave Ruth retired as superintendent of Richmond National Battlefield—a national park that preserves stories from Civil War campaigns in both the 1862 and 1864. But as Dave explains today, the park’s layers of … Continue reading
Posted in National Park Service, Personalities, Preservation
Tagged Andy Shield, Civil War Trust, Conversation-with-Dave-Ruth, Dave Ruth, Hanover County, John Hennessy, Malvern Hill, Mike Andrus, National Park Service, Patrick Henry, Preservation, Richmond, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Rural Plains, Rural Plains Foundation, Totopotomoy Creek
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Exploring Totopotomoy
The first time I visit the Totopotomoy Creek Battlefield at Rural Plains, it’s an unseasonably mild day in late winter. I’m taking pictures for the upcoming Emerging Civil War Series book No Turning Back, so I can’t stay long because … Continue reading
Totopotomoy Creek
Excerpted from Hurricane from the Heavens by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt: Grant later wrote, “The streams were numerous…with impenetrable growth of trees and underbrush” as his army crossed the Pamunkey onto the Tidewater Peninsula of Virginia. The … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War Series, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, National Park Service, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 150th Overland Campaign, Gouverneur K. Warren, Patrick Henry, Robert E. Lee, Rural Plains, Shelton House, Totopotomoy Creek, Ulysses S. Grant, Winfield Scott Hancock
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