The Boy Company
Parker's Battery 1864
This site seems remote from Richmond, but Confederate defenses extended well beyond the city. From mid-June 1864 a unit of artillerymen called Parker’s Battery manned these earthworks.
Despite the proximity of a large enemy force, this line was quiet for the next 9½ months-just an occasional shelling, or pickets taking potshots. The shooting war was a few miles northeast and south.
After the fall of Petersburg, Parker’s Battery retreated with Lee to Appomattox.
Marker can be reached from Ware Bottom Spring Road 0.1 miles east of Old Stage Road, on the right.
Courtesy hmdb.org
