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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MP_the-mccoull-house_Spotsylvania-VA.html
This was the home of farmer Neil McCoull and his unmarried sisters Mary, Eliza, and Milly. McCoull's farm was typical of those that dotted Spotsylvania County: a few hundred acres that produced a modest income from corn and other grains. Like his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MO_mayhem-in-the-muleshoe_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Surrounded on all sides by low ridge lines, Neil MccCoull's house sat in the center of the famous Muleshoe Salient. On the night of May 8, 1864, Confederate engineers built the bulging line of earthworks that wrapped around McCoull's farm to the w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MM_ramseurs-brigade_Spotsylvania-VA.html
2nd North Carolina State TroopsCol. William R. Cox
4th North Carolina State TroopsCol. Bryan Grimes
14th North Carolina TroopsCol. R. Tyler Bennett
30th North Carolina TroopsCol. Francis M. Parker
At dawn May 12, 1864 Union troops over…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MK_harrison-house-site_Spotsylvania-VA.html
This post-war photograph of the Harrison House and farm was taken from the northwest not far from where the trail crossed the paved road. Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, commanding the Confederates defending the salient, made his headquarters here on t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MJ_lees-last-line_Spotsylvania-VA.html
These well-preserved earthworks which run east and west through the woods are the remains of the defensive position constructed during the fighting at the Bloody Angle. Major General Martin Luther Smith, Lee's chief engineer and designer of the Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MI_civil-war-earthworks_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The gentle mounds that meander through Spotsylvania Court House battlefield once looked like the reconstructed earthwork in front of you. The armies built more than 12 miles of trenches here, using whatever tools they could find. Lee's last line, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MH_grants-may-18th-attack_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Following the fight for the "Bloody Angle," Lee constructed this new line of works across the base of the Muleshoe. Unwilling to attack the Confederates in their new position, Grant shifted east toward the Fredericksburg Road (modern Route 208). W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MG_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 18, 1864. About dawn, Hancock's and Wright's Corps advanced southward past the McCoull House and attacked Ewell's Corps which was holding the new line. They hoped to repeat the Federal success of May 12. This time, however, Confederate cannon …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MF_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 12-13, 1864. This line of earthworks, the remains of which run eastward through the woodland, was built across the base of the Confederate "Mule Shoe" during the Federal attacks against the Salient. As the weary Confederates held their enemies…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6LR_the-spindle-house_Spotsylvania-VA.html
A large frame house belonging to Sarah Spindle stood here in 1864. The opening engagement of the Spotsylvania Campaign swirled across the Spindle Farm on the morning of May 8 as Union troops dashed through these open fields toward the Confederate …