Texas State Monument (Gaines Mill)

Description

Sculpted by Gary Casteel
Size: 4 ½” x 1 ½” x 9”
Weight: .9lbs
1863 Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Monument Replicas
On June 1, 1862, Joseph E. Johnston, commanding the Army of Northern Virginia, at the Battle of Seven Pines, was seriously wounded.  With the Army of the Potomac at his Richmond doorstep, Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed Robert E. Lee to become the new commander of the largest Confederate army in the East.
The Confederate assault at Gaines' Mill, by many estimates, was the largest of the Civil War.  At the Battle of Gaines' Mill, Robert E. Lee's soldiers had made a number of attacks against Porter's lines.  At 7p.m., with additional Confederate forces now in position, Lee unleashed upwards of 32,000 men - sixteen brigades.  While not the most organized affair, this assault was likely the largest of the Civil War.  By comparison, more famous assaults such as Pickett's Charge, with its roughly 12,500 men, and Hood's attack at Franklin, with its 20,000, are far smaller in size than Lee's 7 p.m. Gaines' Mill attack.  Led by John Bell Hood, the famed Texas Brigade achieved its first great feat of combat arms at Gaines' Mill.
Considered by many to be the toughest fighting brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, the Texas Brigade (comprised of the 1
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GA, and Hampton's South Carolina Legion at Gaines' Mill) led the charge that broke the Union line atop the Watt House plateau.  It was this determined charge that helped seal the Confederate victory at Gaines' Mill.
The monument is located on Watt House Road at Richmond National Battlefield Park – Gaines Mill Battlefield in Mechanicsville, Virginia, and was dedicated on May 19, 2012.
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