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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MK_harrison-house-site_Spotsylvania-VA.html
This post-war photograph of the Harrison House and farm was taken from the northwest not far from where the trail crossed the paved road. Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, commanding the Confederates defending the salient, made his headquarters here on t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MJ_lees-last-line_Spotsylvania-VA.html
These well-preserved earthworks which run east and west through the woods are the remains of the defensive position constructed during the fighting at the Bloody Angle. Major General Martin Luther Smith, Lee's chief engineer and designer of the Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MI_civil-war-earthworks_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The gentle mounds that meander through Spotsylvania Court House battlefield once looked like the reconstructed earthwork in front of you. The armies built more than 12 miles of trenches here, using whatever tools they could find. Lee's last line, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MH_grants-may-18th-attack_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Following the fight for the "Bloody Angle," Lee constructed this new line of works across the base of the Muleshoe. Unwilling to attack the Confederates in their new position, Grant shifted east toward the Fredericksburg Road (modern Route 208). W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MG_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 18, 1864. About dawn, Hancock's and Wright's Corps advanced southward past the McCoull House and attacked Ewell's Corps which was holding the new line. They hoped to repeat the Federal success of May 12. This time, however, Confederate cannon …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MF_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 12-13, 1864. This line of earthworks, the remains of which run eastward through the woodland, was built across the base of the Confederate "Mule Shoe" during the Federal attacks against the Salient. As the weary Confederates held their enemies…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6LU_maryland-monument_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Judge Charles E. Phelps of the Maryland Court of Appeals erected this granite monument shortly after the turn of the century. On May 8, 1864, Phelps, then colonel of the 7th Maryland, helped lead the headlong charge of the Maryland Brigade across …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6LS_spindle-house_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Many Spotsylvania families lost property during the war, but Sarah Spindle nearly lost her life. The 36-year-old widow and her family had just sat down to breakfast on May 8, 1864, when the popping of rifles announced the presence of hostile troop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6LR_the-spindle-house_Spotsylvania-VA.html
A large frame house belonging to Sarah Spindle stood here in 1864. The opening engagement of the Spotsylvania Campaign swirled across the Spindle Farm on the morning of May 8 as Union troops dashed through these open fields toward the Confederate …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KU_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Union Gen. G.K. Warren's V Corps occupied this line in the early phases of the Spotsylvania operations. Despite hard fighting, Warren could not break the Confederate line on this front. During the dark and rainy night of May 13, 1864, the V Corps …