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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21D_chancellorsville-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 2, 1863. Hour by hour, the long gray columns of Jackson's Corps splashed through the shallow ford here, which was not stone-paved then, stirring the crossing into a mud hole. Before the water of this branch of Poplar Run ran clear again in its…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21B_chancellorsville-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
If a balloonist had been high overhead, Jackson's column might have resembled a huge serpent as it wound through the forest. Closer up, it became thousands of marchers in worn battle dress. From this point, they stretched back about six miles to t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM219_chancellorsville-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 2, 1863. Deluding the enemy was the secret of Jackson's success. Since his troops had been observed from Federal signal stations as they marched across the front of Hooker's army, he turned them south on the Brock Road to create the impression…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM215_chancellorsville-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Jackson's most direct route toward the enemy's flank lay in the right turn onto the Brock Road here. Instead of following that route he turned left, or southward, proceeded a quarter of a mile, and then turned right into a parallel woods road. Thi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM214_chancellorsville-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Jackson's marching soldiers filled this narrow road from shoulder to shoulder making it slow and tedious work for any mounted officer to pass along the column. One of Stonewall's aides, Captain James Power Smith, attempted to catch up to the Gener…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM212_ordeal-of-the-wellfords_Spotsylvania-VA.html
In December 1862 the Wellford family fled Fredericksburg to escape the ravages of battle. Five months later war found them again - here, in a commodious brick home that stood in the field in front of you. On April 30, Union troops arrived. "About …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20Q_chancellorsville-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 2, 1863. Having lost the Furnace, the 23rd Georgia Regiment established a new line here in the bed of the Unfinished Railroad. Other troops reinforced the position. During late afternoon, while Jackson's front lines were hitting the Federal ri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YY_civilians-in-the-crossfire_Spotsylvania-VA.html
In seventy-two hours the Chancellor family's world was turned upside down. A Union soldier described the Chancellor women on April 30:"Upon the upper porch was quite a bevy of ladies in light, dressy, attractive spring costumes. They were not at a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VX_spotsylvania-county-jail_Spotsylvania-VA.html
When the Blockhouse Road Courthouse, located 3 miles southwest of here, burned to the ground in 1937, the new Courthouse was built at this intersection of the Fredericksburg and Brock roads on property conveyed from tavern owner, Lewis Rawlings.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VS_spotsylvania-court-house_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Many of the buildings that comprised the 1864 village of Spotsylvania Court House still stand today. Pamphlets located in the box below will lead you on a 30-minute waling tour of the historic town.