Battery Defenses
Information about battery defenses of Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

  • 1867 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Map of Richmond, made under the direction of Maj. Nathaniel Micheler and Capt. Peter S. Michie (National Archives, Record Group 77, Map G 204, #55 & 57) - this map shows many of the battery defenses in relation to the city.
  • Map of the vicinity of Richmond by a Confederate Topographical Engineer showing the positions of the battery defenses around the city.
  • Map of the vicinity of Richmond showing the positions of the battery defenses around the city.

Written Accounts

1848-01-14, Richmond Enquirer; Talavera house, future site of Battery No. 10, is up for sale – very detailed description. For sale by R. A. Talley, of the Tredegar Iron Works
1861-06-01, Richmond Dispatch; appeal for more workers on the city defenses
1861-06-05, Richmond Dispatch; Negroes are doing good work on the fortifications at Marion Hill (Battery #2)
1861-06-07, Richmond Dispatch; city laborers are at work on the defenses at Marion Hill (Battery #2)
1861-07-02, Richmond Whig; laborers needed for the Richmond defenses
1861-07-18, Richmond Dispatch; notes that negro workers on the fortifications seem to happy to be aiding "their native state"
1861-08-14, Richmond Whig; recommendation that negroes be employed as hospital assistants and that Yankees be moved out of the Alms House
1861-08-21, Richmond Whig; gratuitous praise of the nearly complete Richmond fortifications
1861-11-01, Richmond Dispatch; Entrenchers near Blakey's Pond find buried cannon & shells
1861-11-04, Richmond Examiner; Two Yankee prisoners, permitted leave in the city, attempt to escape, but are re-captured

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