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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KU_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Union Gen. G.K. Warren's V Corps occupied this line in the early phases of the Spotsylvania operations. Despite hard fighting, Warren could not break the Confederate line on this front. During the dark and rainy night of May 13, 1864, the V Corps …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KM_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 9-14, 1864. The village of Spotsylvania Court House, two miles farther down the Brock Road, became of utmost temporary importance, since it now protected Lee's communications with Richmond. As the Confederates threw up earthworks around the vi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KG_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 8, 1864. Here began the second delay on Grant's bloody road to Richmond. Having failed to crush Lee in the Wilderness, the Federals attempted to outflank the Confederates by way of Spotsylvania Court House. After a hard night's march, harassed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5QY_first-regiment-heavy-artillery_Spotsylvania-VA.html
In commemoration of the deeds of theFirst Regiment Heavy ArtilleryMassachusetts Volunteers(Armed as Infantry)Three hundred and ninety eight of whosemembers fell within an horn aroundthis spot during an action fought May 13, 1864Between a division …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5ND_heths-salient-battle-site_Spotsylvania-VA.html
After four days of probing attacks, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered a frontal assault against the Confederate lines at Spotsylvania Court House on 12 May 1864. The focal point of the attack was the Muleshoe Salient, an outward bulge in the Confedera…
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/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/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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4N3_hell-itself_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The Wilderness of today looks different than it did in 1864. Then it was a patchwork of second-growth forest. Brush obscured, briars grabbed, and thickets disrupted the battle lines. One solder described the combat here as "bushwhacking...on a gra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4MO_old-wilderness-tavern_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Known for many years as "Old Wilderness Tavern," the frame building at your left of this view, was a dependency of a by-gone complex. The site of the main structure is located by the brick ruins to the right of the picture, taken about 1865. In th…