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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14FU_fredericksville-furnace_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Charles Chiswell established the iron-making community of Fredericksville near this point of Douglas Run, a tributary of the North Anna River. The furnace had been in blast for about five years when William Byrd in 1732 toured the site in the comp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLK_key-terrain_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The fighting in the Wilderness centered on two thoroughfares: the Orange Turnpike and the Orange Plank Road. Between them yawned a gaping void of dense trees and brush, broken only by a few fields and the track of the Parker's Store Road, still vi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLI_a-p-hill-escapes-capture_Spotsylvania-VA.html
On the morning of May 6, General A.P. Hill stretched his battle lines across the Chewning farm, closing a dangerous gap in the Confederate line. Before Hill's troops arrived, a Union regiment broke into the clearing from the east, startling the ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6LU_maryland-monument_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Judge Charles E. Phelps of the Maryland Court of Appeals erected this granite monument shortly after the turn of the century. On May 8, 1864, Phelps, then colonel of the 7th Maryland, helped lead the headlong charge of the Maryland Brigade across …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6LS_spindle-house_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Many Spotsylvania families lost property during the war, but Sarah Spindle nearly lost her life. The 36-year-old widow and her family had just sat down to breakfast on May 8, 1864, when the popping of rifles announced the presence of hostile troop…
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/HM4LS_wilderness-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 5, 1864. Since Longstreet's Corps was still on the way from encampment near Gordonsville, Lee began this battle with only two of his three corps. Keeping Ewell on the defensive in the Orange Turnpike sector, he pushed A.P. Hill's Corps eastwar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4LP_wilderness-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 5-6, 1864. The bluecoats of Crawford's Division emerged into the sunlight of this clearing, the Chewning Farm, on May 5 in the predetermined moved toward Parker's Store on the Orange Plank Road. Lee's eastward thrust, however, changed all Unio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4LG_the-chewning-farm_Spotsylvania-VA.html
On the ridge ahead of you stood the Chewning house, an important landmark on the Wilderness Battlefield. Sixty-nine-year-old William V. Chewning scratched out a living on this 150-acre farm during the war with the help of his wife Permelia and the…
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