Civil War battlefields are vanishing quickly, swallowed up as cities expand and the need for new housing increases.
"Today, about half of the 950 acres of the Cemetery Hill battlefield near Richmond are home to the Bluegrass Army Depot. Another 180 acres were sold to private developers for subdivisions and a golf course, and other developers have looked at the site for businesses.... The only sign remaining of an 1862 skirmish in which several Confederate soldiers and bystanders were killed by Union troops near what is now the intersection of Dixie Highway and U.S. 42 is a state historic marker in the shadow of a gas station, commemorating the Battle of Florence."
Thanks to Tom Collilns
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