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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21K_the-flying-dutchmen_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The target of Jackson's attack was General Oliver O. Howard's Eleventh Corps, which extended for more than a mile along the Orange Turnpike. The Eleventh Corps was relatively new to the Army of the Potomac. Its 11,000 men included a large percenta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21J_pressing-the-attack_Spotsylvania-VA.html
That evening, as the fighting subsided, Confederate officers reassembled their commands in the clearing surrounding Wilderness Church, one-half mile in front of you. The attack had taken a heavy toll on the army's organization. Units had become mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21G_chancellorsville-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 2, 1863. The head of Jackson's column reached this point about 12:30 p.m. Eight miles away, the rear , under fire of Federal guns, was closing up near the Catharine Furnace. Jackson planned to turn the column right onto the Plank Road (1 mile …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21E_chancellorsville-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
"Stonewall" Jackson's way here was a woodland road west of and parallel to the Brock Road. This park trail approximates the old appearance. No tar, asphalt, or cement highway existed in the 1860's. Even the best of that time, the stone turnpikes a…
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/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…