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|  Confederate Flank Attack-Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter – Locust Grove VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites Marker is near Locust Grove, Virginia, in Orange County, 22508. Marker is on Constitution Highway (State Highway 20) in the Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter. The marker is at stop two of the driving tour of the Wilderness Battlefield. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 08/16/2023 last visited: 08/16/2023 |
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|  The Stakes-Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter – Locust Grove VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites Marker is near Locust Grove, Virginia, in Orange County, 22508. Marker is on Constitution Highway (State Highway 20) in the Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter. The marker is at stop two of the driving tour of the Wilderness Battlefield. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 08/16/2023 last visited: 08/16/2023 |
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|  The Leaders-Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter – Locust Grove VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites Marker is near Locust Grove, Virginia, in Orange County, 22508. Marker is on Constitution Highway (State Highway 20) in the Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter. The marker is at stop two of the driving tour of the Wilderness Battlefield. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 08/16/2023 last visited: 08/16/2023 |
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|  The Forgotten Commander-Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter – Locust Grove VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites Marker is near Locust Grove, Virginia, in Orange County, 22508. Marker is on Constitution Highway (State Highway 20) in the Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter. The marker is at stop two of the driving tour of the Wilderness Battlefield. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 08/16/2023 last visited: 08/16/2023 |
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|  The Plan-Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter – Locust Grove VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites Marker is near Locust Grove, Virginia, in Orange County, 22508. Marker is on Constitution Highway (State Highway 20) in the Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter. The marker is at stop two of the driving tour of the Wilderness Battlefield. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 08/16/2023 last visited: 08/16/2023 |
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|  Collision of Giants Wilderness Exhibit Shelter - Locust Grove VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites Collision of Giants-By 1864 the war had become not just a clash of armies, but of ideas. To be resolved on the fields of Virginia and Georgia that year was not only the fate of the Union, but also the fate of Southern society. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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|  Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park - Locust Grove VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites Marker is in Locust Grove, Virginia, in Orange County. Marker is on Constitution Highway (Virginia Route 20) 22508. Marker is located at the Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter - Stop 2 of the Wilderness Battlefield Auto Tour Route. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 08/13/2023 last visited: 08/13/2023 |
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|  The Battle of the Wilderness - Locust Grove VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites The armies of Lee and Grant collided here in the first clash between the two leaders. In 1864, Lee stood as perhaps the last and only hope for a struggling Confederacy. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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|  Gordon Flank Attack Trail-The Battle of the Wilderness - Locust Grove VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites In this field and its surrounding woods fell nearly one-third of the men killed or wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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|  First Blood in Saunders Field-The Battle of the Wilderness - Locust Grove VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites Undaunted by a devastating Confederate fire, the 529 New Yorkers sprinted across the field and assailed the Confederates along the woodline before you. But supporting units, Caught in the tangled woods north of the field, could not keep pace. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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|  Chaptico-A History of Rebellion - Chaptico MD
in U.S. Civil War Sites Tiny Chaptico was home to many daring men, beginning with John Coode who led Maryland's 1689 Protestant Rebellion. During the Civil War, Chaptico's blockade runners carried medicine and other supplies at night across the Potomac River. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/04/2023 last visited: 04/04/2023 |
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|  Point Lookout State Park-Hammond General Hospital - Scotland MD
in U.S. Civil War Sites Hammond General Hospital, opened at Point Lookout, Maryland, in August 1862, was named for Surgeon General William A. Hammond. The massive structure, built to accommodate 1,400 men. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/03/2023 last visited: 09/19/2015 |
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|  "Contraband" Camp - Scotland, MD
in U.S. Civil War Sites During the Civil War, thousands of enslaved African-Americans escaped from captivity in the South to liberty in the North. The grounds before once sheltered these freedom-seekers, know at that time as “Contraband”. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 04/03/2023 last visited: 03/31/2023 |
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|  Fort Lincoln
in U.S. Civil War Sites Fort Lincoln was one of the Union fortifications built at Point Lookout, MD to help defend against Confederate attack. posted by: La de Boheme location: Maryland date approved: 09/30/2009 last visited: 04/02/2023 |
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|  Point Lookout Prisoner-Of-War Camp
in U.S. Civil War Sites A memorial chronicles the largest and one of the worst Confederate POW camps of the Civil War. posted by: La de Boheme location: Maryland date approved: 09/28/2009 last visited: 10/16/2022 |
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|  Layers of the Past - St Mary's, MD
in U.S. Civil War Sites One of many historical markers in St Mary's, Maryland. posted by: bluesnote location: Maryland date approved: 12/19/2021 last visited: never |
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|  Congress – Cumberland - Give Them a Broadside Boys, as She Goes - Newport News VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites In this section of the James River directly in front of you lies the remains of the USS Cumberland. At this location and along the shore to your left were the Union batteries that protected Camp Butler. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/27/2023 last visited: 06/27/2023 |
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|  A Great Confederate Naval Victory - Newport News VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites On March 8, 1862, the day before her epic battle with the U.S.S. Monitor, the Confederate ironclad ram Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) engaged and sank in the James River two powerful Union sailing Ships of War. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/06/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
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|  Newport News POW Camp-Where Valor Proudly Sleeps - Newport News VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites The monument was erected in June 1900 by the members of the Magruder Camp No. 36, United Confederate Veterans, to honor the 163 Confederate soldiers reinterred at this site who had died in the POW Camp next to Camp Butler on Newport News Point. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/29/2023 last visited: 06/29/2023 |
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|  Farmville-Lee’s Retreat - Farmville VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites April 7, 1865-The Confederate army marched through this tobacco town, followed by the Union army. Lee hoped to issue rations to his men here before turning south but was forced to flee across the Appomattox River. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 10/05/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
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|  Monitor – Merrimack --The Battle of the Ironclads - Newport News VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites The Monitor was a completely new concept of naval design created by Swedish inventor John Ericsson. Its revolving turret housed two 11-inch Dahlgrens. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/26/2023 last visited: 06/26/2023 |
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|  Stalemate in Hampton Roads-In a “big glass case” - Wythe VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites USS Monitor guarded Union Gen. George B. McClellan’s transport vessels in the York River near Fort Monroe, and the Federals reinforced the bows of fast steamers to ram Virginia if she ventured into the Chesapeake Bay. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/26/2023 last visited: 06/26/2023 |
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|  Fort Monroe-Freedom’s Fortress - Fort Monroe VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites During the Civil War, Fort Monroe played an important strategic role for the Union because of its proximity to the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, and the James and York rivers. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/22/2023 last visited: 06/22/2023 |
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|  Kelly's Ford - Culpeper County VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites The first significant cavalry battle of the Civil War took place when Union troops crossed the Rappahannock River at Kelly's Ford. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 12/31/2011 last visited: never |
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|  Kelly’s Ford - Remington VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites Pickets of the opposing armies frequently exchanged gunfire over the Rappahannock River and occasionally swapped Yankee coffee for Rebel tobacco. On St. Patrick’s Day, 1863, they did both here at Kelly’s Ford. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/20/2023 last visited: 06/20/2023 |
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