|
Gaines' Mill 2! |
|
|
|
Gaines' Mill 2! |
|
Gaines' Mill Battlefield Map Showing location and direction of photographs. (Numbers in parentheses in the text refer to this map.) |
The 19th Va Infantry attacked from the right and went across and up the hill on the left. Daniel G. Campbell was wounded during this Battle and was sent to Chimborazo Hospital.  The Trent House (near Savage's Station) - 2001 McClellan's Headquarters was in the yard from June 12, 1862 until the Battle of Gaines' Mill.  Gaines Mill Battlefield - 2000 (5) Looking WEST from the Watt House |
|
On the left Looking SOUTHWEST from the Watt House and Looking NORTH from the Watt House is on the right  Gaines Mill Battlefield - 2001 (8) Looking NORTHEAST toward the Watt House (arrow) from the tree line (Left side of the left photograph above)  Union Artillery - November, 2001 (9) Porter posted his batteries intermittently along this ridge. Most of his guns were twelve-pounder Napoleons like the two here. "The woods were full of smoke," wrote a Massachusetts artillerist, "and thicker and thicker buzzed the bullets." Soon the Confederate infantry appeared. One of the Federal guns fired a double charge of canister at 35 yards range, which "mowed their ranks awfully." It was a last salute. Thousands of gray-clad infantry swarmed up the hill and by nightfall had captured nearly two dozen of Porter's cannons.  Ruins of the Mill - April, 1865 |
