Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park Travel Guide

 doug48 Says:  pictured is an out building on thomas chandler's 740 acre fairfield plantation. confederate general thomas "stonewall" jackson died in this building on may 10 th 1863. on may 2 nd just after his brilliant victory during the battle of chancellorsville he was mistakenly shot... 

 doug48 Says:  pictured is heth's salient which was part of the larger mule shoe salient. on the morning of may 12 th union general grant ordered ambrose burnsides's IX corps to take heth's salient. the confederates held the line in the morning hours and in the afternoon the forces of... 

 doug48 Says:  prospect hill was a confederate defensive position just west of downtown fredericksburg. from this point confederate artillery could shell union positions in downtown fredericksburg. union general ambrose burnside ordered generals george meade, abner doubleday, and john... 

 doug48 Says:  after positioning his army to the west of chancellorsville jackson attacked the union 11 th corps. around 5:00 pm on may 2 nd. the 11 th corps were commanded by generals oliver o. howard, charles devens, adolph von steinwehr and colonel leopold von gilsa. this majority... 

 doug48 Says:  after the wounding of general jackson on the evening of may 2 nd general j. e. b. stuart took over command of his army. on the morning of may 3 rd stuart turned the attention of jackson's corps to hazels grove. hazels grove was large open plateau that was a key position in... 

 doug48 Says:  on the evening of may 1 st 1863 generals robert e. lee and thomas "stonewall" jackson devised one of the boldest schemes in american military history. at this site the two generals plotted how to destroy union general joseph hooker's 75,000 man army now entrenched around... 

 doug48 Says:  pictured are remnants of confederate trenches on the east face of the mule shoe salient. after the union break through of the confederate line on may 12 th the confederates counterattacked on both sides of the salient. general john gordon's division moved forward across the... 

 doug48 Says:  the wilderness battlefield exhibit shelter is an important stop on the wilderness battlefield tour. on display at the shelter there are maps and information of the battle of the wilderness. the battle of the wilderness was fought between may 5 th and may 7 th 1864 between... 

 doug48 Says:  pictured is the ruins of catherine furnace. catherine furnace was built in 1837. after ten years of iron production the furnace closed. on the ontset of the civil war catherine furnace was reopened and was a confederate munitions foundry. on may 2 nd 1863 general thomas... 

 doug48 Says:  the spotsylvania county museum and research library is located in the old berea church. the old berea church was built in 1856 in the virginia gothic revival style. during the battle of spotsylvania courthouse the berea church served as a confederate hospital. the museum has... 

 doug48 Says:  the spotsylvania confederate cemetery is located on courthouse road near the spotsylvania courthouse. this is the final resting place of confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the battle of spotsylvania courthouse. 

 doug48 Says:  the original spotsylvania courthouse was built in 1840. during the battle of spotsylvania in 1864 the courthouse was severely damaged and major repairs were made in 1870. the current spotsylvania courthouse was built on the site of the old courthouse in 1900. the doric... 

 doug48 Says:  after the bloody battles of the mule shoe salient on may 12 th the fighting shifted east to the fredericksburg road. the fredericksburg road, today called courthouse road (VA 208), and later massaponax church road became avenues of union advance. the fredericksburg road... 

 doug48 Says:  the mc coull house was built by neil mc coull in 1846. located near harrison farm it was in the center of the mule shoe salient. the mc could house was the scene of a confederate counterattack led by generals stephen ramsuer and junius daniel's north carolina brigades. the... 

 doug48 Says:  on the morning of may 3 rd 1863 at 5:30 AM the now combined forces of generals robert e. lee and j. e. b. stuart simultaneously attacked union positions around chancellorsville. generals stuart, robert rhodes, and henry heth attacked the union forces under general daniel... 

 doug48 Says:  located at fairview is the chancellor family cemetery. this cemetery was established in 1812. during the battle of chancellorsville union solders were interned here but were later moved to the national cemetery in fredericksburg. today there are 25 headstones in the cemetery... 

 doug48 Says:  behind the confederate lines of the mule shoe salient stood the harrison farm. prior to the battle of spotsylvania edgar harrison owned this small farm and eleven slaves. on the morning of may 12 th after union success at the bloody angle confederate general john gordon... 

 doug48 Says:  on may 12 th union colonel emory upton attacked the forces of confederate general samuel mc gowan at a section of the mule shoe salient that became known as the bloody angle. the mule shoe was a bulge in the confederate defensive line that looked like a "mule shoe". both... 

 doug48 Says:  on may 3 rd 1863 the confederate forces of general robert e. lee had the union surrounded on three sides. general stuart was attacking from the west. general anderson was attacking from the south, and general mc laws was attacking from the east. pictured is the area were...