The Confederate High Water Mark

On July 1, the farthest point reached by any organized Confederate infantry came in this cleared area, where two simple wooden structures, thought to have housed the enslaved people working the Crew farm, stood during the fighting. In the twilight combat, part of General Paul J. Semmes's brigade reached the slave cabins and used them for cover. A handful of men, mostly Louisianians, pushed a few feet farther through the smoke toward the Union guns, where they met General Thomas Meagher's famous Irish Brigade. The Federal infantry won this collision and ended the threat to their cannon.

Sandston, Virginia · United States