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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGI_asburys-deathplace_Spotsylvania-VA.html
A short distance southeast is the site of the George Arnold House where Bishop Francis Asbury died, March 31, 1816. Asbury, born in England in 1745, came to America in 1771 and labored here until his death. He was ordained one of the first two bis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGH_stanards-mill_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Unable to defeat the Confederates at Spotsylvania Court House, on 21 May 1864 Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered the Army of the Potomac to march toward Bowling Green. Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's Ninth Corps brought up the rear. Grant ordered B…