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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24G4_the-home-of-widow-tapp_Spotsylvania-Courthouse-VA.html
In front of you is the site of Catherine Tapp's house, a 1.5-story log cabin surrounded by a corn crib, orchard, and stable. Union and Confederate forces swept past the dwelling, and at one point a Union shell passed through it. When Lt. Col, Theo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FW_elisha-franklin-paxton_Spotsylvania-Courthouse-VA.html
The monument across the road marks where General Elisha Franklin Paxton, commander of the famed Stonewall Brigade, fell on May 3, 1863. Before the war, Frank Paxton had practiced law in "Stonewall" Jackson's hometown of Lexington, Virginia, When, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FU_night-time-horror_Spotsylvania-Courthouse-VA.html
Civil war combat rarely continued after dark, but on the night of May 2, 1863, desperation and fear filled these gloomy woods. At midnight, about 3,000 Union soldiers of Brigadier General David B. Birney's division moved through these woods, inten…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FT_bloody-morning_Spotsylvania-Courthouse-VA.html
Long after the Civil War, Sergeant Rice Bull of the 123rd New York Volunteers remembered the early morning hours of May 3, 1863. "Never was there a more beautiful sunrise," he wrote, "not a cloud in the sky. It was an ideal Sunday morning, warm an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FS_hazel-grove-fairview-trail_Spotsylvania-Courthouse-VA.html
This trail leads to Fairview, a key Union position. The fighting that occurred between here and Fairview on May 3, 1863, was some of the most desperate of the war—exceeding, for the time engaged, both Antietam and Gettysburg. Signs along the…
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