
Civil War Tours
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Chesterfield County contains 11 parks sites associated with the Civil War. Each of these sites has its own unique story to tell. Collectively, these “links in a chain” tell the larger story of one of the most important military campaigns of the war but seldom told.
Clarissa
(Claraa) Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 –
April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who
founded the American Red Cross. She was a
hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a
teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing
education was not then very formalized and
she did not attend nursing school, she
provided self-taught nursing care.
Barton
is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work
and civil rights advocacy at a time before
women had the right to vote. In 1864,
she was appointed by Union General Benjamin
Butler as the "lady in charge" of the
hospitals at the front of the Army of the
James. Among her more harrowing experiences
was an incident in which a bullet tore
through the sleeve of her dress without
striking her and killed a man to whom she
was tending. She was known as the "Florence
Nightingale of America". She was also known
as the "Angel of the Battlefield"
"C.
1860 Summerseat" - According
to tradition, this 19th century
house was used by a county magistrate as the
“seat” of his court during summer months due
to the muddy and rutted roads which made
travel to the courthouse in the center of
the county almost impossible. The
lower brick portion of the house was the
“jail” or “detention center, complete with
bars that held prisoners or those persons
awaiting trial. It is
not a large building at 18 by 16 feet. The
house is part of Virginia State University.
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