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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L91_spotsylvanias-first-african-american-church_Spotsylvania-VA.html
History did not record his name . . . the black member of nearby Mine Road Baptist Church who worked as a coachman for one of the white congregants. He asked whether his fellow black church members who sat obediently in the balcony on Sundays coul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L90_the-piney-branch-school_Spotsylvania-VA.html
"How well do l remember the night before my first day in school. I remember the night before because my mother washed my little white coat and today l can see it hanging on the line in the kitchen. I had been told that I was going to sc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L8Z_u-s-colored-troops-in-spotsylvania_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Both politicians and the public were extremely war-weary and anxious for the Civil War to end. By summer 1862, President Abraham Lincoln knew that conditions had worsened and that new tactics were necessary to thwart Confederate advances. That new…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L8Y_sergeant-benjamin-brown_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of honor to Sergeant Benjamin Brown, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 11 May 1889, while serving with Company C, 24th U.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L8X_the-wilderness-and-the-overland-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Known as The Wilderness, the land is comprised of approximately 9,000 acres of rolling fields and dense woods and was the site of what became the first stage of an epic a confrontation between the armies of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L8W_batter-up-spotsylvania-yellow-jackets_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Softball and baseball were played by Spotsylvania's African American children, teens and young adults in back yards, on church grounds and in open fields. Some, such as Layton Fairchild, Sr. (right), grew up playing baseball and were privile…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JY5_spotsylvanias-war-effort_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The year is 1917. Everybody in Spotsylania County has a brother,relative or friend fighting in Europe. All of America has mobilized its resources to fight and win the Great World War.
Gleaming in the afternoon sun, a year-old rail line runs on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ICP_chancellorsville_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Following "Stonewall Jackson's" successful flank attack and his subsequent wounding on the night of May 2nd, Lee appointed Major General "Jeb" Stuart to command Jackson's Corps. Faced with an imminent threat from the dire…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ICO_colquitts-attack_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"My brigade was thrown to the left. Forming line of battle parallel to the road. I advanced in face of a severe fire to a line of breastworks from which the enemy had been driven. The contest was sharp and fierce for a few moments. I o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ICN_colquitt-turns-tylers-flank_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"I at once saw the enemy outnumbered us, as they were in double lines, and extended beyond our right. I immediately asked for reinforcements, but was informed they could not be furnished. Colonel Webb, who has remained in front for some momen…