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The Bermuda Hundred Campaign was a series of battles fought at the town of Bermuda Hundred, outside Richmond, Virginia, during May 1864 in the American Civil War. Union Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler, co...
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Bermuda Hundred was started in 1613, after the English settlers made peace with the Virginia natives - in part with Pocahontas' help. ... Bermuda Hundred was initially intended to include several "hundreds" upstream and downstream of the Appomattox River. Just north of the mouth of the Appomattox, Bermuda City was founded.
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Bermuda Hundred, Va. makes the CWPT Top 10 List of Endangered Battlefields ... Bermuda Hundred was never intended to be a battlefield. Instead, this peninsula jutting into the James River was supposed to be the starting point for a victorious Union effort to seize control of the Confederate capital at Richmond.
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Bermuda Hundred – Facts about Bermuda Hundred, pictures, video, and Bermuda Hundred information at Encyclopedia.com: a free, credible collection of encyclopedias. ... Bermuda Hundred fishing village, on the peninsula at the confluence of the Appomattox and James rivers, SE Va., NE of Petersburg; founded 1613.
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Major General George E. Pickett, commander of the Military Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia, was the senior military officer present in Petersburg when Union General Benjamin Butler began the invasion of Bermuda Hundred during May 1864. The Confederate Signal Corps had warned Pickett at some point...
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PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BERMUDA HUNDRED SEMINAR ... A closer view of the Bermuda Hundred landing site. In the foreground can be seen the original road trace and bulkheads that were dock placements for the Army of the James Supply Depot.
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The Bermuda Hundred Campaign: Operations on the South Side of the James River, Virginia–May, 1864. By Herbert M. Schiller. 1988 ... In his book, The Bermuda Hundred Campaign: Operations on the South Side of the James River, Virginia – May, 1964, Herbert Schiller attempts to recount a major element...
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Grant and his party arrived at Fort Monroe, and the Bermuda Hundred campaign was planned. Grant sought Butler's ideas for a spring advance upon Richmond from the south. ... Butler's first duty after arriving in the Bermuda Hundred-City Point area would be to fortify a base that would be safe from attack. After this,
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[May, 1864] MAY 3 and 4 the regiment did picket duty, and on the 5th left on the steamer Delaware, and sailed down to Fortress Monroe, up the James River, past City Point, to Bermuda Hundred. On the 6th we landed, and, after a brief delay, marched several miles up the Bermuda Hundred road.
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