Parker's Battery-Richmond National Battlefield Park - Chester VA
Posted by: Don.Morfe
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Parker's Battery-Richmond National Battlefield Park marker is located at
1801 Ware Bottom Spring Road, Chester VA 23836
Waymark Code: WM19MK8
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 03/19/2024
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Parker's Battery Richmond National Battlefield Park--Parker’s men improved this earthen redoubt, referred to as a battery, so as to better protect their guns stationed behind its walls. Supporting infantry, from the 15th and 17th Virginia regiments, filled the adjacent trenches and manned the forward picket line. While their comrades engaged Grant’s legions around Petersburg, the men of Parker’s Battery spent the last months of the war in the relative calm that prevailed along this area of the Confederate defenses.
With the collapse of the Confederate lines around Petersburg in early April 1865, the position here was vacated and the artillerists joined in the long march to Appomattox Court House. Having spent nearly 10 months in these entrenchments, almost one-fourth of their wartime service, the surviving members of Parker’s Battery came to view their experience here with some feelings of affection.
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: National Park Service
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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Date Installed or Dedicated: Not listed
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