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Battlefields with a file in Virginia

15 Virginia dossiers cover ground that already gave its account — muster rolls, casualty lists, after-action reports — and then kept filing. Figures on the field, sounds in the works, presences attributed to documented deaths. The archive keeps the two records in separate columns and notes where witnesses claim they meet.

15 dossiers0 counties covered100% open to visitorsCedar Creek and Belle Grove — deepest file

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Other Virginia filings:Historic sites28 Mansions16 Sites14 Houses11 Museums6 Churches6 Cemeteries5 Historic houses5 Caves4 Naturals4

Cedar Creek and Belle Grove

Middletown, Virginia

October 19, 1864—Sheridan’s ride and the dawn surprise.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Yorktown Battlefield

Yorktown, Virginia

October 1781—the siege that won the war, on the York River.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Fredericksburg Battlefield

Fredericksburg, Virginia

December 1862—the Union army’s worst day, at the stone wall.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Chancellorsville Battlefield

Fredericksburg, Virginia

Jackson’s flank attack—and the wound that killed him, May 1863.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Wilderness Battlefield

Locust Grove, Virginia

May 1864—the woods that burned with the wounded inside.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Brandy Station Battlefield

Brandy Station, Virginia

June 9, 1863—the largest cavalry battle ever fought in America.

2 claims · 1 legend→

The Crater

Petersburg, Virginia

July 30, 1864—the mine that exploded into a massacre.

2 claims · 1 legend→

New Market Battlefield

New Market, Virginia

May 15, 1864—the VMI cadets’ charge in the Field of Lost Shoes.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Manassas National Battlefield

Manassas, Virginia

First and Second Bull Run—where the war began and returned, 1861-62.

Cold Harbor Battlefield

Mechanicsville, Virginia

June 3, 1864—Grant’s charge that he regretted to the end.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Malvern Hill

Henrico, Virginia

July 1, 1862—the guns that ended the Seven Days.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Five Forks Battlefield

Dinwiddie, Virginia

April 1, 1865—the "Waterloo of the Confederacy" and Sheridan’s rise.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Petersburg National Battlefield

Petersburg, Virginia

Nine and a half months of siege—the war’s longest.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Kernstown Battlefield

Winchester, Virginia

Jackson’s only defeat—March 1862, and the return in 1864.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield

Spotsylvania, Virginia

The Bloody Angle—twenty hours of the war’s worst fighting, May 1864.

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