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The monument to Mahone’s Brigade monument is just west of The Crater at Stop Eight on the the Petersburg Eastern Front Auto Tour.
About Mahone’s Brigade
Mahoney’s Brigade consisted of the 6th, 12th, 16th, 41st and 61st Virginia Infantry Regiments. It was commanded by Colonel David Weisinger after General Mahone had been promoted to command of the division in May. Colonel Weisinger was wounded in the fighting around The Crater on the 30th, and Colonel George T. Rogers temporarily took over command of the brigade. Colonel Weisinger would be promoted to brigadier general effective to the date of the Battle of the Crater and given command of Mahone’s Brigade for the rest of the war.
Text from the top of the monument:
This stone marks
the approximately the extreme
right of Mahone’s Brigade
Virginia Volunteers
when it re-captured the
Confederate Breastworks
on the 30th of July, 1864.
Text from the front of the monument:
Placed by the Petersburg
Chapter U.D.C. November 1910.
Location of the monument
The monument to Mahone’s Brigade is on the Crater Loop Trail on the northwest side of the Crater. (37°13’07.9″N 77°22’41.5″W)