DEFENDING THE SACRED SOIL OF VIRGINIA….

During the four years of the conflict, the killing fields of Virginia saw sixty-five percent of all the fighting that occurred during the war. Eyewitness accounts by Robert Catlett Cave

“The losses to my company, which had lost half its complement in the valley campaign, went into the fight with about fifty men. It came out with about fifteen, having lost eleven, including the Captain, killed, and twenty-four wounded.” Gaines’ Mill…

“’Here come the Devils who’ve been raiding our homes. Send them where they belong,’ said the private as columns of Union cavalry attacked.” Cedar Mountain…

Near Lee’s Headquarters… “General R. E. Lee, striving in vain to hide a smile, merely thanked us for wishing to save him from discomfort. He made us ride before him and throw dust in his face while we rode all the way back to the public road.” Cold Harbor