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Major Robert J. Forman on

The Bermuda Hundred

This month the PCWRT welcomes Major Robert J. Forman speaking on The Bermuda Hundred Campaign.

In May of 1864, Benjamin Butler and the Union Army of the James engaged Confederate forces under the command of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, in a series of battles outside of Richmond.  Known as The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, local sites such as Port Walthall Junction, Swift Creek, Chester Station, and Ware Bottom Church saw desperate fighting as the Confederate Army struggled to protect the outskirts of Richmond, and defend the Southern Capital.

While Beauregard’s forces had been pieced together from the ranks of teenagers and elderly men from the Richmond-Petersburg area, the Union Army was no match for the determined defenders, and Butler became bottled up at the little fishing village of Bermuda Hundred.  While safe from attack, he was unable to move, as the enemy had built an equally strong line immediately in front of him, and ultimately his campaign would be remembered as a Union failure.

Our speaker, Major Robert J. Forman is the author of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign Tour Guide, which includes extensive descriptions of every Civil War battle fought in the Bermuda Hundred area of Southeastern Chesterfield.

A West Point graduate, and former educator at Pamplin Historical Park in Petersburg, Major Forman is a member of the Military History Committee of the Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia, and passionate preservationist of our area’s Civil War history.  We are honored to welcome him, and hope you will join us!

Click here to read more about Robert!

Thursday, February 16, 2012 6:30 PM

$16.00 for members, $20.00 for guests.

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