At Hatcher’s Run, on the 1st of December, Gregg’s Cavalry and a battery were engaged, in which the Fourth performed signal service. It was led by Major Mays. A fort near the point where the railroad crosses the run, stood in the way of further advance, and it was necessary to capture it. This duty was assigned to the Fourth. Plunging into the stream. it crossed above, and making a detour, came in upon and attacked the rear of the work, while the front facing the river was held by the Sixteenth Cavalry dismounted. Assailed thus in front and rear, the garrison was soon compelled to surrender.

Two hundred prisoners, three cannon, with arms, equipments, and stores were captured. The loss was considerable. Captain Francis M. Ervay was among the wounded.

thanks for coming by! We’re busy and slow, but still here. Please post more about your ancestor if you have the chance …

A 1991 application for listing on the National Register of Historic Places has this text:

Grant, Meade, Dana, and their staffs left no tangible evidence of their conference in the churchyard other than O’Sullivan’s photographs. Several of the private soldiers who either were there that day or were treated at the church when it served as a hospital were not as reticent, however. They scribbled their names, and sometimes their units and opinions, on the walls inside the church. Both physically and in images, then, Massaponax Baptist Church serves as a reminder of the warriors who once stood on its grounds.

I hope their scribbles are still there …

Looking forward to more about Col Covode, Eric.

Thanks for more about Westover, Don. And one post is hardly a trend … but I hope I’m back.

Westover Landing is indeed the Westover plantation on the James. It was also a camp for the 6th US, among others, just downriver from Harrison’s Landing. It’s a bit more than two miles by today’s roads, but that looks about right going down the river. The plantation is still there with a sign near the highway, but it wasn’t open for visitation when I was living in Williamsburg.

Nice to see you back posting, by the way!

Don

Thank you for the kind words about my post. I’m glad that you enjoyed it, and I am likewise glad you found something useful there.

Lt. Col. Covode interests me, and I’ve done some work on him. He was MWIA at the June 24, 1864 Battle of Samaria Church, which is fully profiled in my book Glory Enough for All: Sheridan’s Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station. I intend to profile Covode some time in December.

Eric