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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLM_memorializing-jacksons-death_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Of his soldiers he was the idol;of his country he was the hope;of war he was the master.Senator John Warwick Daniel When General "Stonewall" Jackson died eight days after being wounded in these woods, shock waves rippled through the South. Conf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLL_a-missed-opportunity_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The morning of May 3d found the Confederate army heavily outnumbered and dangerously divided. "Stonewall" Jackson's flank attack the evening before had staggered the Union army but had not irretrievably damaged it. As the day broke, Jackson's corp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLK_key-terrain_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The fighting in the Wilderness centered on two thoroughfares: the Orange Turnpike and the Orange Plank Road. Between them yawned a gaping void of dense trees and brush, broken only by a few fields and the track of the Parker's Store Road, still vi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLI_a-p-hill-escapes-capture_Spotsylvania-VA.html
On the morning of May 6, General A.P. Hill stretched his battle lines across the Chewning farm, closing a dangerous gap in the Confederate line. Before Hill's troops arrived, a Union regiment broke into the clearing from the east, startling the ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCJD_mcgowans-brigade_Spotsylvania-VA.html
(Front):South CarolinaMcGowan's BrigadeBrig. Gen. Samuel McGowan 1st S.C. InfantryCol. Comillus W. McCreary Orr's RiflesLt. Col. George McD. Miller 12th S.C. InfantryMaj. Thomas F. Clyburne 13th S.C. InfantryCol. Benjamin T. Brockman …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8AT_the-union-army-escapes_Spotsylvania-VA.html
After dark, May 5, 1863, Union soldiers left their trenches and began making their way toward U.S. Ford. A cold rain drenched the soldiers to the skin and turned the woodland roads to mud. At the ford, the Rappahannock River rose five feet in thre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM89B_flanking-of-hays-brigade_Spotsylvania-VA.html
On this ridge, the Union brigade of Brig. Gen. William Hays, supported by artillery, temporarily stopped the Confederate advance across the ground below you. A member of the 12th New Jersey described what happened next: "We were in open sight, wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM896_confederate-breakthrough_Spotsylvania-VA.html
At about 7:00 a.m. on May 3, a dangerous gap in the Union line opened near the Orange Turnpike, 1/4 mile to your right. Federal troops on your right, led by Hiram Berry, retreated about 1/2 mile and established a new position. The blue-clad soldie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM892_junction-of-earthworks_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Maj. Gen. Hiram G. Berry's division formed the front of the Union defense north of the Orange Turnpike on the morning of May 3. Although virtually all of Berry's entrenchments have disappeared, this small segment of works on the right marks the lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7D3_rearguard-action_Spotsylvania-VA.html
On May 2, 1863, as the tail end of Stonewall Jackson's flanking column neared the Wellford place, Union infantry launched an attack. They struck Jackson's rearguard (the 23rd Georgia) a half-mile to the north, at Catharine Furnace. From there, the…
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