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Richmond, Virginia, is experiencing rapid urban expansion. While development pressure was once focused elsewhere, these historic landscapes now represent some of the last significant tracts of undeveloped land in the capital region. Today, developers are competing for these final vestiges of open space-the very ground where history was made.

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Join the Richmond Battlefields Association today and help save America's endangered Civil War battlefields while there is still time. Every donation is dedicated directly to acquiring the hallowed ground where soldiers fought and died.

Get in the fight now. Help us safeguard our shared heritage and ensure these historic landscapes are never sacrificed to data centers, paving, and suburban development.

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Richmond Area Battle Summaries

The National Mandate
In 1993, a 15-member Congressional Commission completed the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) Report to identify the nation's most historically significant battlefields. Out of nearly 10,000 battles and skirmishes fought across the country, the report identified only 384 principal battlefields as worthy of preservation.

Virginia dominates this list with 122 sites-and of those, 31 are located right here in the Richmond area. This underscores our region's unique responsibility to protect a massive portion of America's surviving Civil War heritage.

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• Beaver Dam Creek - Hanover County, June 26, 1862, Seven Days Campaign
  
• Chaffin's Farm/New Market Heights - Henrico County, September 29-30, 1864, Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
  
• Chester Station - Chesterfield County, May 10, 1864, Bermuda Hundred Campaign
  
• Cold Harbor - Hanover County, May 31-June 12, 1864, Grant's Overland Campaign
  
• Darbytown & New Market Roads
  Henrico County, October 7, 1864, Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
  
• Darbytown Road - Henrico County, October 13, 1864, Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
  
• Deep Bottom I - Henrico County July 27-29, 1864, Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
  
• Deep Bottom II (Fussell's Mill) - Henrico County, August 13-20, 1864, Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
  
• Drewry's Bluff - Chesterfield County, May 15, 1862, Peninsula Campaign
  
• Eltham's Landing - New Kent County, May 7, 1862, Peninsula Campaign
  
• Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road - Henrico County, October 27-28, 1864, Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
  
• Gaines' Mill - Hanover County, June 27, 1862, Seven Days Campaign
  
• Garnett's & Golding's Farms - Henrico County, June 27-28, 1862, Seven Days
  
• Glendale/White Oak Swamp - Henrico County, June 30, 1862, Seven Days Campaign
  
• Hanover Court House - Hanover County, May 27, 1862, Peninsula Campaign
  
• Haw's Shop - Hanover County, May 28, 1864, Grant's Overland Campaign
  
• Malvern Hill - Henrico County, July 1, 1862, Seven Days Campaign
  
• North Anna - Caroline County & Hanover County, May 23-26, 1864, Grant's Overland Campaign
  
• Oak Grove - Henrico County, June 25, 1862, Seven Days Campaign
  
• Old Church - Hanover County, May 30, 1864, Grant's Overland Campaign
  
• Port Walthall Junction - Chesterfield County, May 6-7, 1864, Bermuda Hundred Campaign
  
• Proctor's Creek - Chesterfield County, May 12-16, 1864, Bermuda Hundred Campaign
  
• Saint Mary's Church - Charles City County, June 24, 1864, Grant's Overland Campaign
  
• Savage's Station - Henrico County, June 29, 1862, Peninsula Campaign
  
• Seven Pines - Henrico County, May 31-June 1, 1862, Peninsula Campaign
  
• Swift Creek - Chesterfield County, May 9, 1864, Bermuda Hundred Campaign
  
• Totopotomoy Creek - Hanover County, May 28-30, 1864, Grant's Overland Campaign
  
• Walkerton - King and Queen County, March 2, 1864, Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid
  
• Ware Bottom Church - Chesterfield County, May 20, 1864, Bermuda Hundred Campaign
  
• Wilson's Wharf - Charles City County, May 24, 1864, Grant's Overland Campaign
  
• Yellow Tavern - Henrico County, May 11, 1864, Grant's Overland Campaign

Above: In Henrico County, the battlefield at Yellow Tavern was lost to development in the 1980's.

The site of JEB Stuart's mortal wounding lies 800 yards east along the Old Telegraph Road.

Relentless suburban pressure threatens to replace America's hallowed ground with housing developments bearing only the names of Civil War battlefields.

A sign of the times in Chesterfield County's Bermuda Hundred district.

The Seven Pines & Fair Oaks battlefields were lost to development long ago. Shown here is the site of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's wounding along Nine Mile Road in Henrico County.