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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/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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4MM_landmark-in-the-wilderness_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The building complex known collectively as Wilderness Tavern appeared in the early 19th century to serve the needs of travellers. Located on either side of the Fredericksburg-Orange Turnpike, the original roadbed of which survives today as the pri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM381_the-chancellor-slaves_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Their names are unrecorded, their labors are rarely noted. No images of them survive. But slaves outnumbered Chancellor family members when Frances Chancellor moved into this house in 1861. Likely only a few of the 20 slaves owned by the Chancello…
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