Park Units
The park consists of 13 units/sites:
Within the city of Richmond, and with significance covering the span of the war, are:
- Tredegar Iron Works, serving as the main visitors center and museum
- Chimborazo Hospital, which was the Confederacy's largest wartime hospital camp,
Sites of battles and significance during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign and Seven Days Battles:
- Chicakhominy Bluffs, one of the defensive works overlooking the Chickahominy River.
- Drewry's Bluff, a defensive battery in Chesterfield County overlooking the James River
- Beaver Dam Creek, in Hanover County
- Gaines' Mill, in Hanover County
- Glendale, in Henrico County
- Malvern Hill, in Henrico County
Sites relating to the Overland Campaign of 1864 include:
- Rural Plains (aka Shelton House) and area of Totopotomoy Creek, in Hanover County
- Cold Harbor, in Hanover County
Sites relating to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign of 1864-65 include:
- New Market Heights, site of 14 Medals of Honor for United States Colored Troops, in Henrico County
- Fort Harrison, in Henrico County
- Parker's Battery, a fortification along the Howlett Line in Chesterfield County.
Read more about this topic: Richmond National Battlefield Park
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