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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24G7_the-battle-of-the-wilderness_Locust-Grove-VA.html
On no American battlefield did the landscape do more to intensify the horror of combat. One soldier called the Wilderness "a wild, weird, region... [a] dense and trackless forest." For decades loggers had cut and re-cut these forests to fuel nearb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24G6_the-capture-of-winslows-battery_Locust-Grove-VA.html
The May 5 fighting in Saunders Field was waxing hot when Captain George B. Winslow received orders to rush two guns of Battery D, 1st New York Artillery, to the front to support Union attacks here. Dashing down the turnpike at a trot, Winslow's me…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24G5_in-the-nick-of-time_Locust-Grove-VA.html
Here, for a few moments on the bright spring morning of May 6, 1864, Robert E. Lee faced disaster for his army. The woods to your right and the fields in front of you swarmed with Union troops. The artillery behind you stood as the only organized …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24G3_brink-of-victory_Locust-Grove-VA.html
On the morning of May 6, 1864, Confederate troops of General A.P. Hill's corps flew out of the woods to your left into the Tapp field, some of them in abject panic. They fled the thunderous advance of more than 20,000 Union troops. Wrote one man: …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24G2_lee-to-the-rear_Locust-Grove-VA.html
On May 6, 1864, General Robert E. Lee faced one of the greatest crises of his career. A dawn assault by the Union army had routed A.P. Hill's corps and threatened the destruction of the entire Confederate army. Just when all seemed lost, a body of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FR_a-busy-place_Locust-Grove-VA.html
You are now standing in what was commonly referred to as "the yard," that part of the plantation where many of the slaves lived and did their daily chores. Depending on the time of year, you might have seen slaves here boiling soiled laundry in a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FQ_a-wild-wicked-roar_Locust-Grove-VA.html
The arrival of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Confederate Second Corps here along the Orange Turnpike on the morning of May 5 challenged the Union march through the Wilderness. At midday more than 6,000 troops of the Union Fifth corps moved forward o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y7W_wilderness-battlefield-memorial_Locust-Grove-VA.html
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864 resulted in almost 29,000 Union and Confederate casualties. Both armies attempted to find and bury the dead, but moved on before completing the process. Over the next few years, many dead were disinterre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y7V_the-apperson-family-and-lake-of-the-woods_Locust-Grove-VA.html
Alfred Apperson was born in 1806. He married Malinda Jones in 1816 and managed a plantation until he had saved enough money to purchase 120 acres of farm land in 1846. That land would become part of Lake of the Woods 120 years later. Alfred and Ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y7U_spotswood-family-cemetery_Locust-Grove-VA.html
· In 2012, local historians recorded 15 field stones in rows that resembled the manner in which graves were marked in colonial and antebellum days before permanent granite headstones became popular. · In 2013, they used Ground …
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