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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RN_final-meeting-fateful-march_Spotsylvania-VA.html
To reach the Union army's right flank, Jackson would have to march his corps twelve miles over narrow, unpaved roads. The general hoped to have his men moving by dawn on May 2, but he got an unusually late start. It was past 7 a.m. before his troo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RK_chancellorsville-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Just ahead is the crossing of the Orange Plank Road, a mid-nineteenth century trade route from the mountains to the navigable Rappahannock at Fredericksburg. Loaded wagons had the right-of-way on the planking, which covered half the roadbed. Succe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16E_catharine-furnace_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The stone stack in front of you is all that remains of the Catharine Furnace, built in 1837. Close a decade later, the furnace was reborn to meet the Confederacy's wartime need for iron. Union cavalrymen under General George A. Custer destroyed th…