. Virginia in black and white . les offield fortification. The famous fields close by cannot even be named, sonumerous are they. The road runs through Seven Pines, or Fair Oaks. Itis only seven miles to Drewrys Bluff. Cold Harbor, where Grants armysuffered its worst defeat, Malvern Hill, Gaines Mill are only a few milesfrom Richmond. Then the Army of the Potomac marched across the rail-road, fighting through the tangled swamps, and Grant marched to the rear ofPetersburg. This was in the summer and fall of 1864. Five Forks wasfought, and then came Appomattox. The latter point is most easily rea
. Virginia in black and white . les offield fortification. The famous fields close by cannot even be named, sonumerous are they. The road runs through Seven Pines, or Fair Oaks. Itis only seven miles to Drewrys Bluff. Cold Harbor, where Grants armysuffered its worst defeat, Malvern Hill, Gaines Mill are only a few milesfrom Richmond. Then the Army of the Potomac marched across the rail-road, fighting through the tangled swamps, and Grant marched to the rear ofPetersburg. This was in the summer and fall of 1864. Five Forks wasfought, and then came Appomattox. The latter point is most easily reachedfrom Lynchburg, on the James River division of the Chesapeake & OhioRailway. After the road leaves Richmond and passes through the scenes of McClel-lans disastrous battles, it touches Williamsburg, Newport News, Hampton,and ends almost at the sally-port of Fortress Monroe. It was 500 yards outin Hampton Roads that the Monitor, on March 9, 1862, whipped the hithertoinvincible Merrimac and changed the navies of the 24 MOUNTAINS AND SEA-SHORE,
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