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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4LS_wilderness-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 5, 1864. Since Longstreet's Corps was still on the way from encampment near Gordonsville, Lee began this battle with only two of his three corps. Keeping Ewell on the defensive in the Orange Turnpike sector, he pushed A.P. Hill's Corps eastwar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4LP_wilderness-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 5-6, 1864. The bluecoats of Crawford's Division emerged into the sunlight of this clearing, the Chewning Farm, on May 5 in the predetermined moved toward Parker's Store on the Orange Plank Road. Lee's eastward thrust, however, changed all Unio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4LG_the-chewning-farm_Spotsylvania-VA.html
On the ridge ahead of you stood the Chewning house, an important landmark on the Wilderness Battlefield. Sixty-nine-year-old William V. Chewning scratched out a living on this 150-acre farm during the war with the help of his wife Permelia and the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4K6_wilderness-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 5, 1864. In the early afternoon, Wadsworth's Division of Warren's Corps hit the right flank of Rodes' Confederate Division near this point. Its left already crippled by Griffin's Division on the Turnpike a mile north, Rodes' line here staggere…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3KH_the-widow-tapp-house_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The Tapp Farm exemplifies the lifestyle of most Wilderness residents. Catharine Tapp, age 55 in 1860, leased her land from the Lacy family who owned nearby Ellwood. The Widow Tapp shared her modest 1-1/2 story log home with five relatives and a la…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3JQ_here-fell-general-alexander-hays_Spotsylvania-VA.html
HerefellGeneralAlexander Hays3rd Div. 2nd Corps. U.S.V.May 5, 1864.
Erected byGeneral Alexander Hays Post No. 3Department of Pennsylvania G.A.R.andDavis Star Camp, Sons of Veterans
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3JO_james-s-wadsworth_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Brigadier General and Brevet Major GeneralUnited States Volunteerscommanding the 4th DivisionV Corps Army of the Potomacwas mortally wounded near this spotMay 6, 1864 and died two days laterin the field hospital of Hill'sConfederate Corps:He fell …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3JK_crisis-in-tapp-field_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Here on the morning of May 6, 1864, Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his army faced perhaps their greatest crisis. Soon after dawn, hundreds of disorganized Confederates tumbled from the woods to your left, driven by a powerful Union assault.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3JJ_widow-tapps-field_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Few families of modest means became so famous. In this field lived widow Catherine Tapp, who with other family members eked out an existence from the poor soil. The Tapps occupied a lopsided log cabin about 300 yards in front of you - seven people…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM381_the-chancellor-slaves_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Their names are unrecorded, their labors are rarely noted. No images of them survive. But slaves outnumbered Chancellor family members when Frances Chancellor moved into this house in 1861. Likely only a few of the 20 slaves owned by the Chancello…