David H. Jones | July 28, 2009
Our Pamplin Historical Park tour group followed the June, 1864 trail of the Wilson-Kautz Raiders, during which time 5,000 Federal cavalry troopers swept westward into Southside Virginia, tearing up the tracks of the Richmond and Danville Railroad as they went. Their ultimate destination was the covered railroad bridge across the Staunton River, which they intended to destroy. The bridge [...]
David H. Jones | July 18, 2009
There was another place on the Pamplin Historical Park Spring Tour that I was looking forward to visiting. At a spot just off Old Telegraph Road in Henrico County, there’s a monument marking the site where J.E.B. Stuart fell mortally wounded on May 11, 1864 during the Battle of Yellow Tavern. The Old Telegraph Road name comes from the [...]
David H. Jones | July 12, 2009
The recent Pamplin Historical Park Spring Tour took us to a number of cavalry action sites in the vicinity of Richmond and Petersburg. The raid by Phil Sheridan’s cavalry on Beaver Dam Station in May of 1864 was of special interest to me because it involved a small detachment of the 2nd Maryland Battalion and [...]
David H. Jones | July 2, 2009
This past May, we once again enjoyed the Pamplin Historical Park Annual Spring Tour with A. Wilson Greene as the guide for our foray into the counties of central Virginia. This tour is so popular that most of the participants have been on a number of the six preceding spring tours offered by Pamplin Historical [...]
