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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NJ_confederate-defense-turns-to-offense_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Confronted by overwhelming numbers, Confederate forces fell back from Chancellorsville (three and a half miles in front of you) and established a defensive position here on April 30. General Robert E. Lee instructed Richard H. Anderson, who comman…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NI_mccarty-farm_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Behind you, on the Orange Turnpike, stood the home of Frances McCarty. In 1860, Frances lived here with three members of her family. She owned 120 acres, three slaves, and scratched out a living as a farmer. Like so many residents of Sptosylvania …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NH_earthworks_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"We were digging and fortifying all night."Charles E. DeNoon, Mahone's BrigadeCivil War earthworks, sometimes referred to as breastworks, were built in a fashion much different than modern military trenches. Soldiers started at ground level and bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NG_the-climax_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The Battle of the Wilderness climaxed here in the twilight of May 6, 1864. After a day of seesaw fighting in the woods behind you, the Confederates mounted a final effort to take the Plank Road-Brock Road intersection, 100 yards to your left. Thou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NF_joseph-hayne-rainey_Georgetown-SC.html
This National Historic Landmark was the family home of Joseph H. Rainey, the first African American elected to the US House of Representatives, 1870-1879. Born in Georgetown County in 1832, Rainey, it is said, made blockade-running trips during th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NE_to-the-confederate-dead-of-gloucester_Gloucester-Courthouse-VA.html
Erected by their surviving comrades and friends.Plant the fair column o'er the vacant grave, a soldier;s honors let a soldier have.1889
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ND_echoes-homeward_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Once schoolmates, friends, and neighbors, they came here as soldiers from Yorkville, South Carolina; Pen Yan, New York; Clarksville, Virginia; Barre, Vermont; and a hundred other towns, North and South. Their deaths in these woods on May 5 and 6, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NC_in-memoriam-john-clayton_Gloucester-Courthouse-VA.html
The Garden club, Gloucester, VA, planted a live oak tree, April 2, 1957 near old clerk's office on Court Green in honor of the internationally revered botanist and for 51 years, 1722-1773, Clerk of Gloucester County, VA.Scientiae Artis HerbariaeAc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NB_court-house_Gloucester-Courthouse-VA.html
County of Gloucester, VA. Re-erected 1766 on site of building destroyed by fire.Restored, remodeled and clerks office building added 1956.Carl M. Lindner & Son A.I.A. Architects, Richmond, VirginiaWray & Richardson, General Contractors, Williamsbu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NA_the-vermont-brigade_Spotsylvania-VA.html
(Front):In these woods, during the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5 and 6, 1864, Vermont's "Old Brigade" suffered 1,234 casualties while defending the Brock Road and Orange Plank Road intersection.
(Back):"The flag of each regiment, though pie…