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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/HM24G4_the-home-of-widow-tapp_Spotsylvania-Courthouse-VA.html
In front of you is the site of Catherine Tapp's house, a 1.5-story log cabin surrounded by a corn crib, orchard, and stable. Union and Confederate forces swept past the dwelling, and at one point a Union shell passed through it. When Lt. Col, Theo…
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/HM24FW_elisha-franklin-paxton_Spotsylvania-Courthouse-VA.html
The monument across the road marks where General Elisha Franklin Paxton, commander of the famed Stonewall Brigade, fell on May 3, 1863. Before the war, Frank Paxton had practiced law in "Stonewall" Jackson's hometown of Lexington, Virginia, When, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FV_11th-united-states-infantry_Fredericksburg-VA.html
During the Chancellorsville Campaign, the 1st Battalion, 11th United States Infantry formed a part of Colonel Sidney Burbank's 2nd Brigade, Major General George Syke's 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps. Advancing eastward along the Orange Turnpike, Syk…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FU_night-time-horror_Spotsylvania-Courthouse-VA.html
Civil war combat rarely continued after dark, but on the night of May 2, 1863, desperation and fear filled these gloomy woods. At midnight, about 3,000 Union soldiers of Brigadier General David B. Birney's division moved through these woods, inten…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FT_bloody-morning_Spotsylvania-Courthouse-VA.html
Long after the Civil War, Sergeant Rice Bull of the 123rd New York Volunteers remembered the early morning hours of May 3, 1863. "Never was there a more beautiful sunrise," he wrote, "not a cloud in the sky. It was an ideal Sunday morning, warm an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FS_hazel-grove-fairview-trail_Spotsylvania-Courthouse-VA.html
This trail leads to Fairview, a key Union position. The fighting that occurred between here and Fairview on May 3, 1863, was some of the most desperate of the war—exceeding, for the time engaged, both Antietam and Gettysburg. Signs along the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21R8_the-124th-new-york-regiments-first-battle_Fredericksburg-VA.html
After the Union Army's disastrous events of May 3, 1863, the 124th New York Regiment of Franklin's Brigade, Whipple's Division of Sickles III Corps fell back to this area where the Mineral Springs Road crossed La Roque's Run (to the rear and right…
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