Dsm_mechva
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Ever wanted to visit Civil War Battlefields in Virginia ?
Check out my 360° video ..the first in a series of local battlefield videos I plan to make and improve upon as I go hopefully.
(* being the first video like this please excuse any quirks or lack of reading the entire long signs..or long list of facts and such but at least you can see it and look around)
Use your computer mouse or move your phone around (or finger on phone screen) to look around.
The Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, also known as the Battle of Mechanicsvilleor Ellerson's Mill, took place on June 26, 1862, in Hanover County, Virginia, as the first major engagement of the Seven Days Battles during the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the start of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's counter-offensive against the UnionArmy of the Potomac, under Maj. Gen.George B. McClellan, which threatened the Confederate capital of Richmond. Lee attempted to turn the Union right flank, north of the Chickahominy River, with troops under Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, but Jackson failed to arrive on time. Instead, Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill threw his division, reinforced by one of Maj. Gen. D.H. Hill's brigades, into a series of futile assaults against Brig. Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps, which occupied defensive works behind Beaver Dam Creek. Confederate attacks were driven back with heavy casualties. Porter withdrew his corps safely to Gaines Mill.
Check out my 360° video ..the first in a series of local battlefield videos I plan to make and improve upon as I go hopefully.
(* being the first video like this please excuse any quirks or lack of reading the entire long signs..or long list of facts and such but at least you can see it and look around)
Use your computer mouse or move your phone around (or finger on phone screen) to look around.
The Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, also known as the Battle of Mechanicsvilleor Ellerson's Mill, took place on June 26, 1862, in Hanover County, Virginia, as the first major engagement of the Seven Days Battles during the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the start of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's counter-offensive against the UnionArmy of the Potomac, under Maj. Gen.George B. McClellan, which threatened the Confederate capital of Richmond. Lee attempted to turn the Union right flank, north of the Chickahominy River, with troops under Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, but Jackson failed to arrive on time. Instead, Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill threw his division, reinforced by one of Maj. Gen. D.H. Hill's brigades, into a series of futile assaults against Brig. Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps, which occupied defensive works behind Beaver Dam Creek. Confederate attacks were driven back with heavy casualties. Porter withdrew his corps safely to Gaines Mill.
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