• Gaines' Mill battlefield -- Watt House area

    Richmond

    National Battlefield Park Virginia

Multimedia Presentations

An artillery detachment prepares to fire a cannon.
Cannoneers To Your Posts! A photo tour of an artillery detachment in action. (Flash movie)
size: 2.53 MB
 
Large cannon overlooking the James River at Drewry's Bluff.

Torpedoes at Drewry's Bluff. (Flash video)
length: approximately 3 minutes

 
"Southern Cross" by Don Trioni, showing 11th Alabama at the Battle of Glendale.
The story of the 11th Alabama and the flag carried at the battles of Gaines' Mill and Glendale is told in this video podcast.
"Southern Cross" by Don Troiani, courtesy of Historical Art Prints.  Used with permission.

Did You Know?

Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond

Tredegar Iron Works produced almost 1,100 cannon, roughly one-half of all guns made in the South during the war.  (It was second only to the Parrott foundry in Cold Springs, New York in production for the entire United States.)