Tag Archives: Hatcher’s Run

The Wentworth brothers three

Three white, albeit slightly weathered veterans’ headstones stand side by side by side in Hope Grove Cemetery, located on the Hatchet Mountain Road (Route 235) not far from Hope Village (the built-up area around the intersection of routes 105 and 235). These headstones belong to the Wentworth brothers. Two of them got here before the […]

Appomattox Road: “A heavy blow struck me just above the left breast” — Joshua Chamberlain at Quaker Road

  The end was approaching. By late March 1865, “we felt sure that he (Ulysses Simpson Grant) was preparing some great movement, and this must be still to the left, to cut [Robert E.] Lee’s communications and envelop his existing lines,” said Brig. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, commander of the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 5th […]

Appomattox Road: The solemn-faced nincompoop soon returned

  Winter 1865 found John Haley of Saco serving with the 17th Maine Infantry Regiment in the Union lines southwest of Petersburg. He and his Co. I comrades alternated their duty between the monotony and military regimen of camp life and dangerous duty at picket posts much nearer Confederate lines. “A new year dawns, the […]