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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2K9_town-of-orange_Orange-VA.html
Lee vs. Grant - The 1864 CampaignAfter Gettysburg and some minor operations during the summer and fall of 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Confederate army settled into winter quarters on the hills around the town of Orange Court House.
Lee rel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2K8_lees-headquarters_Orange-VA.html
Half a mile west, at the Rogers farm called Middle Hill, Gen. Robert E. Lee kept his headquarters from Dec. 1863 to May 1864. His Army of Northern Virginia, in winter camp, guarded the south side of the Rapidan River from the vicinity of Liberty M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2K5_bloomsbury_Orange-VA.html
A mile north is Bloomsbury, estate of the pioneer, James Taylor, ancestor of Presidents James Madison and Zachary Taylor. He was a member of Spotswood's expedition over the mountains in 1716.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2K4_campaign-of-second-manassas_Rapidan-VA.html
Two miles north, near Pisgah Church, Jackson, Ewell and A.P. Hill camped, August 15-20, 1862
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2K3_elder-john-leland_Rapidan-VA.html
Courageous leader ofthe Baptist DoctrineArdent advocate of the principlesof democracyVindicator of separationof church and state.
Near this spot in 1788, elder John Leland and James Madison, the father of the American Constitution, held a signi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2K2_stuarts-very-narrow-escape_Unionville-VA.html
At dawn on 18 Aug. 1862, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart was awakened by the clatter of approaching cavalry. Expecting Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee to join him in scouting Maj. Gen. John Pope's Union army, Stuart was surprised by Federal troopers instead. Mount…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2K1_mine-run-campaign_Locust-Grove-VA.html
Meade, advancing south from the Rapidan River to attack Lee, found him in an entrenched position here on November 28, 1863. Heavy skirmishing went on until December 1. Then Meade, thinking Lee's lines too strong to assault, retired across the Rapi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2K0_robinsons-tavern_Locust-Grove-VA.html
Near here stood ancient Robinson's Tavern. Here Meade wished to concentrate his army in the Mine Run Campaign, November 1863, but one corps, coming up late, disarranged his plans. Here Ewell, moving east from Orange in the Wilderness Campaign, cam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2JZ_mine-run-campaign_Locust-Grove-VA.html
Amidst numbing cold and stinging rain, in late 1863 Union General George G. Meade and his Army of the Potomac attempted a year-end stroke against Robert E. Lee. This effort climaxed along Mine Run, two miles in front of you.
Since Gettysburg, m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2JY_face-off_Locust-Grove-VA.html
"Men, there is no use denying it, but three-quarters of you are to be left in that marsh with your toes turned up; but remember the Fourteenth never quailed yet, and I'll shoot the first man who does it now."Lt. Col. Samuel Moore to the men of the…