Today on the Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the cabin on 360 with Dennis

Eslock and Ryan Jones.

Now, because we've talked about the woods, the history of the land itself is pretty

horrific too because there was some Civil War battles right there.

Yes.

On the land or very near the land.

On, on.

On the land.

There were numerous, numerous crossings on that land.

Looking at maps, there were five to eight companies either side,

depending on the day that you look at as to who held that property on what day.

It was battled over very heavily because we are two-tenths of a mile from the next main intersection,

and that was to what is modern-day 360 was a main thoroughfare into Richmond,

and the Confederates were told to hold that intersection at all costs.

Just across the road, maybe a thousand yards from our property

are the remnants of Bethesda Church, the foundation of anyway. And that was a Confederate

headquarters. And then a mile and a quarter, maybe mile and a half to our northeast was the Via House, and that was a

union headquarters. So we are literally right between them as the cannonball flies.

And there was a lot. I mean, obviously, with them situated so closely together, there was a lot

of death on that land.

From everything that I have researched and the battles that we can tie to that area.

Now, I can't find an exact map that says on this plot of land, but with the battles that took place right around us, we've come up with 2,264 men were killed, captured, wounded, or missing in action within a mile or so of the property.

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