Map of Butler's Plan of Attack

Map showing Butler's Plan of Attack on September 29, 1864 at New Market Heights.
General Butler's Plan of Attack for September 29, 1864.
National Park Service

Did You Know?

A young woman writes a letter home for a wounded soldier.

Phoebe Yates Pember worked at Chimborazo Hospital as a matron, caring for the sick and wounded.  Her memoirs, A Southern Woman’s Story are still in print and are considered to be among the finest pieces of Civil War literature.