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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM33W_154th-new-york-state-volunteer-infantry_Spotsylvania-VA.html
(front): 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 11th Corps"The Hardtack Regiment"Anchor of the Buschbeck LineNear Dowdall's TavernBattle of ChancellorsvilleMay 2, 1863(back):590 present for duty240 killed, wounded, and capturedDedicated to the memory of the r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM33J_burying-the-dead_Spotsylvania-VA.html
At battles end, more than 2,000 Union dead lay scattered through the Wilderness. The first major effort to bury the dead came more than a year later, when a Union regiment received orders to proceed to the Wilderness and inter those Union soldiers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM326_longstreet-felled_Spotsylvania-VA.html
It was the most successful day of James Longstreet's career. He had arrived on the Wilderness battlefield early in the day to find the Confederate army in full retreat and in danger of being destroyed. His troops had prevented disaster. Now, at mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM324_flank-attack_Spotsylvania-VA.html
These woods saw some of the heaviest fighting of the Battle of the Wilderness. On May 5, then again on May 6, 1864 ragged Union and Confederate battle lines surged back and forth on both sides of the Orange Plank Road. The stalemate here finally b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QW_12th-regiment-new-jersey-volunteers-1862-1865_Spotsylvania-VA.html
"We can not dedicatewe can not consecratewe can not hallow this groundthe brave men living and deadwho struggled here haveconsecrated it far aboveour poor power to add or detract."
The State of New Jerseymerely marksthe surrounding twentyacres …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QU_valuable-crossroads_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Just after noon on May 5, 1864, Union troops raced toward this intersection. With Confederates from General A.P. Hill's corps sweeping down the Orange Plank Road from the west, blue-clad troops under George W. Getty arrived here just moments befor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QT_horror-on-the-orange-plank-road_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Some of the Civil War's heaviest fighting occurred along the Orange Plank Road on May 5 and 6, 1864. One of two major roads passing through the Wilderness, the Plank Road became a magnet for both armies as they struggled to maneuver through the ta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QS_on-to-richmond_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Before the Wilderness, battlefield stalemate meant retreat by one side or the other - a return to the starting point to try again another day. But not here. Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant rendered stalemate in the Wilderness irrelevant. O…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QR_no-turning-back_Spotsylvania-VA.html
When the armies departed the Wilderness, they left behind a disfigured landscape. Trenches twisted like earthen snakes through the woods, and blackened leaves marked the paths of fires. Along the Brock Road, noted one soldier, trees "were scarred …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22P_a-fatal-reconnaissance_Spotsylvania-VA.html
When "Stonewall" Jackson reached this point at about 9 p.m. on May 2, 1863, he stood at the peak of his military career. Four hundred yards in front of you, a shaken Union army hastily built earthworks to halt the Confederate tide. One hundred yar…