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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3LB_ellwood_Locust-Grove-VA.html
"The house stands on Wilderness Run, in a lonely place about half a mile south of the Culpeper plank road; it is a good-sized farmhouse, built of wood, square, with two porticos and painted a dove color. From the apex of the roof a hospital flag s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3K4_collision-of-giants_Locust-Grove-VA.html
Collision of GiantsBy 1864 the war had become not just a clash of armies, but of ideas. To be resolved on the fields of Virginia and Georgia that year was not only the fate of the Union, but also the fate of Southern society. The armies on both si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3J8_140th-new-york-state-vols_Locust-Grove-VA.html
First Brigade First Division Fifth CorpsNumber engaged 529Casualties23 killed 118 wounded114 missingMay 5, 1864
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3IZ_the-higgerson-farm_Locust-Grove-VA.html
Before you are the fields of the Higgerson Farm, one of only a few major clearings on the Wilderness Battlefield. On the afternoon of May 5, Union troops swept across this open space, bound for bewildering combat in the thickets to the north and w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3IO_an-uneasy-partnership_Locust-Grove-VA.html
At the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House, Grant would not only struggle against Lee's army, but also against the conservative, sometimes timid, methods of the Union Army of the Potomac. George G. Meade, commander of that army,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3IM_grants-headquarters_Locust-Grove-VA.html
On May 5, 1864, this knoll was bordered by a second growth of scraggly pines and scrub oak. From here Grant and Meade could see little of the battle. Instead, they relied on subordinates to keep them apprised of the situation at the front. In the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3IK_first-blood-in-saunders-field_Locust-Grove-VA.html
"The regiment melted away like snow. Men disappeared as if the earth had swallowed them."-Captain Porter Parley140th New York InfantryShortly after noon on May 5, the battleline of the 140th New York burst from the woods to your right-rear - the f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3I6_a-wild-wicked-roar_Locust-Grove-VA.html
The arrival of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps here along the Orange Turnpike on the morning of May 5 challenged the Union march through the Wilderness. The Federals responded with a massive attack. At midday more than 12,000 Federal t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3I5_battle-of-the-wilderness_Locust-Grove-VA.html
Here May 5,6, 1864, 70,000 Confederates under Lee defeated 120,000 Federals under Grant. Confederate loss 11,500. Federal 18,000. This battle, fought with conspicuous bravery, in a Wilderness on fire, will take it's place among the great battles o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM33P_campaign-of-1781_Rhoadesville-VA.html
Lafayette, marching southward from Raccoon Ford, camped here, June 8-9, 1781.
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