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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V7_union-lifeline_Fredericksburg-VA.html
On April 30, 1863, Gen. George G. Meade's Union Fifth Corps advanced along this road toward Chancellorsville. As Meade's troops approached, Confederates on the Bullock Farm briefly resisted them, then disappeared into the woods to spread word of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UH_grants-supply-line_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The Fredericksburg Road, present-day Route 208, was the Army of the Potomac's supply line during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. For two weeks in May 1864, wagons shuttled back and forth along the road between the Union army and its supply…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RR_chancellorsville-campaign_Fredericksburg-VA.html
May 1-3, 1863. "Our enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from behind his entrenchments and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." With these words, "Fighting Joe" Hooker, on May 1, started toward the rea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QS_15th-reg-t-n-j-vols_Fredericksburg-VA.html
1861 - 1865(South face): To commemorate the services of the 15th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel William H. Penrose, U.S.A., engaged two hours on this line of battle on the Federal side.May 3rd, 1863. ——&m…
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1861 - 1865(North face): Monument to commemorate the services of the Twenty-Third Regiment New Jersey Volunteers Infantry, in the battle of Salem Church, Virginia, May 3rd, 1863. Erected by the State of New Jersey, under the authority of an act…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QP_wounding-of-jackson_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Just 1.7 miles west, on this road (then the Orange Plank Road), Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was wounded by "friendly fire" about 9:30 P.M. on 2 May 1863 during the Battle of Chancellorsville. Having brilliantly executed a flanking maneu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QO_refuge-from-horror_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The arrival of contending armies in December 1862 forced thousands of residents to leave Fredericksburg. Most fled into the countryside, bound for homes or churches in Spotsylvania County. One Confederate officer remembered seeing old women, child…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QN_battle-of-chancellorsville_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Hooker reached this point, April 30, 1863; Next day he entrenched, with his left wing on the river and his right wing on this road several miles west. That wing was surprised by Jackson and driven back here, May 2. The Confederates stormed the pos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QM_from-church-to-hospital_Fredericksburg-VA.html
As the tumult of battle subsided, new sounds filled the air; the cries and moans of wounded soldiers. Two days of fighting around Salem Church left about 4,000 men killed or wounded. As soon as the battle ended, Confederate surgeons turned the bui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QK_the-battle-of-salem-church_Fredericksburg-VA.html
This ridge top now brimming with traffic and commerce once witnessed the clash of armies. On May 3, 1863, 10,000 Confederate troops took position astride the Orange Plank Road (modern Va. Route 3). That afternoon, 20,000 Union soldiers under Gener…
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