The American Battlefield Trust is working to preserve an additional 53 acres at the Ware Bottom Church battle site in Chesterfield County, VA near Richmond. Please consider a donation towards their efforts. The 85th Pennsylvania was encamped near the site in the spring and summer of 1864. Besides frequent skirmishing with the enemy, the 85th PA fought two battle here. On May 20, the regiment suffered twenty-five casualties including six killed. On June 16, twenty men from the regiment were casualties, including seven killed. My great-grandfather, John Clendaniel, was wounded in this engagement but survived. Four other men on picket duty were captured; two of them died in confinement.
