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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UD_engagement-at-harris-farm-bloomsbury_Spotsylvania-VA.html
On 19 May 1864 Confederate forces commanded by Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell attacked Brig. Gen. Robert O. Tyler's heavy artillery division on the Union right flank near the Harris farm, Bloomsbury, about one-quarter mile northwest. Newly arrived from…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U5_chancellorsville-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 2-3, 1863. Units of Slocum's Federal XII Corps held this line. Its left extended a little beyond the Orange Plank Road (reader's left) where it connected with the right of Couch's II Corps. A mile to the southeast the Orange Plank Road interse…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U4_chancellorsville-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 2-3, 1863. In this vicinity, holding Hooker's original center, Slocum's Corps curved northwestward (reader's right rear) to form an interior line behind Howard's Corps. When Jackson smashed Howard, Slocum's western line fell also. The rest of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U3_the-27th-indiana-infantry_Spotsylvania-VA.html
3rd Brigade, 1st Div., 12th CorpsHeld this position from 7p.m.May 2nd to 9 a.m. May 3rd, 1863.Present for duty 300Killed 36, Wounded 114———Mustered in Aug. 1861, Mustered out Sept. 1864Total enrollment 1,101. Killed 172.—&m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U2_fairview_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Formerly a Chancellor farmstead, on May 3, 1863, Fairview became a gory landscape. That morning all the energy and violence of the Battle of Chancellorsville focused here - on the fields and woods around a commonplace log house. Here, the contendi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U1_chancellor-cemetery_Spotsylvania-VA.html
This is the Chancellor family cemetery. In the first half of the 19th century the Chancellors dominated this section of Spotsylvania County. Fairview was the original family seat, but branches of the family eventually lived at Chancellorsville, Ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U0_fairview_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Just ahead of you stood a story-and-a-half log house known as Fairview. This was originally a Chancellor home, but during the Civil War James Moxley and his family occupied it. Moxley was overseer of Frances Chancellor's 20 slaves. Moxley likely m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TZ_ordeal-of-the-wounded_Spotsylvania-VA.html
After the May 3, 1863, fighting at Chancellorsville, the Confederates gathered up 500 wounded Union soldiers and brought them here to Fairview. For more than a week the helpless men lay in the yard around the house, receiving little medical care, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TX_collis-zouaves_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Erected to mark the line of battle of the114th Reg't. Pennsylvania Vol's.on the memorable 3rd day of May 1863, where it lost 3 officersand 35 enlisted men killedList of KilledMajor Joseph S. ChandlerCaptain Frank Eliot, Co. F.Lieu't. George M. Cul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW_artillery-duel_Spotsylvania-VA.html
On the morning of May 3, 1863, Union artillery at Fairview suffered the most intense artillery bombardment of the battle. More than 40 Confederate guns at Hazel Grove (visible 1,200 yards in front of you) concentrated their fire on 34 Union cannon…