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NORTH ANNA RIVER CAMPAIGN
21-26 May 1864
Approaching Richmond from the north after the Wilderness Campaign, Lt. General U.S. Grant sought to cross the critical rail center at Hanover Junction (Doswell). General R.E. Lee ordered the construction of a complex web of earthworks here to defend the river crossing and junction. The Union army probed the defenses and captured some of them but soon abandoned the effort and moved east toward Cold Harbor.
Department of Historic Resources, 1990 |