here is a link to a Library Of Congress map that shows where the Watkins house was.
Shows fortifications and names of some residents. Official [signed] N. Michler, Major [of Engrs.]. Civil War salted paper maps. LC copy annotated in pen-and-ink, watercolor, crayon and pencil to show picket lines of the 2nd, 5th, and 6th Union corps situated between Fort Wadsworth and Billup's...
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as I pointed out earlier the house was nowhere near Fort Stedman. It was on what is Called the boydton plank Road line which stretched from battery 45 to the east tburgess Mill to the West
On March 25 Lee withdrew several brigade from this line and sent them east to participate in the attack on fort Stedman. Army corps commanders Horatio Wright and Andrew Humphreys took advantage of the weak line and seized parts of the confederate picket line.
The Confederates counterattacked and took back part of the picket line. Gracies Alabama brigade participated in the attack. The 60th Alabama, however was not involved. It was defending The crow house against attacks from the union second army corps
The 116th Pennsylvania is the regiment that captured the flag.
The 116th Pennsylvania was no ordinary regiment. For two hard years it fought with Thomas Meagher's celebrated Irish Brigade of the Army of the Potomac. Though only partially Irish itself, the 116th won an honored place in this famous unit's history by its faithful service in some of the...
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