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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/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/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/HM1FKV_23rd-usct-at-the-alrich-farm_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The first combat in the Civil War between United States Colored Troops and Confederates north of the James River occurred near here. On 15 May 1864, Confederate Brig. Gen. Thomas Rosser pushed forward a cavalry detachment along Catharpin Road to d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EFG_spotsylvania-courthouse-and-jail_Spotsylvania-VA.html
A formal system of adjudication and punishment has existed in this county since the first court was seated in Germanna in ~1722. Through the years, the County seat and court building moved four times until its final location here at the intersecti…
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