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|   Jackson's Flank Attack - Chancellorsville VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites On this quiet meadow, Stonewall Jackson led one of most famous and successful Confederate attacks during the Civil War. posted by:  La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 04/02/2010 last visited: 08/11/2023 |
 view galleryNW13.4 km | Brock Road/Plank Road Intersection - Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites One of the most horrific battles of the Civil War took place in the overgrown woods at this intersection of the Wilderness. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 05/11/2010 last visited: 08/17/2023 |
 view galleryNW13.4 km | Jackson Attacks-The Battle of Chancellorsville - Spotsylvania VA in U.S. Civil War Sites "You can go forward then." With those words "Stonewall" Jackson unleashed one of the most famous and successful attacks of the Civil War. On the afternoon of May 2, 1862, Jackson led 30,000 men of his Second Corps beyond the Union army's right flank. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 08/12/2023 last visited: 08/12/2023 |
 view galleryNW13.4 km | The Flying Dutchmen-The Battle of Chancellorsville - Spotsylvania VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The target of Jackson's attack was General Oliver O. Howard's Eleventh Corps, which extended for more than a mile along the Orange Turnpike. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 08/12/2023 last visited: 08/12/2023 |
 view galleryNW13.4 km | Burying the Dead-The Battle of the Wilderness - Lake Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites At battle's end, more than 2,000 Union dead lay scattered through the Wilderness. The first major effort to bury the dead came more than a year later, when a Union regiment received orders to proceed to the Wilderness and inter those Union soldiers. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW13.4 km | Flank Attack! The Battle of the Wilderness - Lake Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites These woods saw some of the heaviest fighting of the Battle of the Wilderness. On May 5, then again on May 6, 1864 ragged Union and Confederate battle lines surged back and forth on both sides of the Orange Plank Road. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW13.4 km | Longstreet Felled-The Battle of the Wilderness - Lake Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites As Longstreet galloped down the road at the head of his victorious troops – near this spot – he inadvertently rode between two Confederate lines maneuvering in the dense roadside foliage. One of them fired a volley. A bullet struck Longstreet. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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| Lee's Hill - Fredericksburg, VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Site of Robert E. Lee's Command Post during the Battle of Fredericksburg posted by:  stinger503 location: Virginia date approved: 07/19/2017 last visited: 05/24/2019 |
 view galleryNW13.5 km | Wilderness Campaign - Spotsylvania VA in U.S. Civil War Sites May 5, 1864. Since Longstreet's Corps was still on the way from encampment near Gordonsville, Lee began this battle with only two of his three corps. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW13.8 km | Tapp Field - Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced crisis in the Wilderness when Union troops swept across this field and his reinforcements had not arrived. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 04/24/2010 last visited: 08/16/2023 |
 view galleryNE14.5 km | Fredericksburg Campaign - Fredericksburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites December 13, 1862. On this ridge, called Marye's Heights, blazed the cannon of Col. J.B. Walton's Louisiana battalion, the Washington Artillery. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/10/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryNE14.6 km | Fredericksburg Campaign - Fredericksburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites With Richmond as his objective, Gen. Ambrose Burnside started the Federal Army of the Potomac from Warrenton on November 15, 1862. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/10/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryNE14.6 km | Fredericksburg Battlefield - Fredericksburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Before you looms Marye's Heights, a key point in the two major Civil War battles. At the base of the heights, bordered by a stone wall, lies the Sunken Road. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNE14.6 km | Stephens House - Fredericksburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Martha Stephens' house was caught in the crossfire during the Battle of Fredericksburg, but she refused to leave and administered aid to the fallen. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 07/24/2011 last visited: 07/01/2022 |
 view galleryNE14.6 km | Sunken Road-Battle of Fredericksburg- Fredericksburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites This photograph was taken shortly after the Confederates in the foreground were killed on May 3, 1863. This graphic depiction of the human debris of battle is one of the most revealing post-battle photos from the Civil War years. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/10/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryNE14.6 km | Innis House - Fredericksburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites A small frame home was caught in the line of fire during the Battle of Fredericksburg and bears the scars 150 years later. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 07/24/2011 last visited: 07/01/2022 |
 view galleryNE14.6 km | Fredericksburg Campaign - Fredericksburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites December 13, 1862. The Washington Artillery of New Orleans was posted around the Marye House here on Marye's Heights. Col. J. B. Walton, the commanding officer, had his headquarters in the house. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/10/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryNE14.8 km | Fredericksburg Campaign - Fredericksburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites December 13, 1862. About 100 yards to the south Georgia’s Gen. T.R.R. Cobb fell mortally within sight of his mother’s girlhood home. He died at the roadside dwelling of Mrs. Martha Stevens. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/10/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryNW15.1 km | Chewning Farm - Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Chewning Farm was a strategic point on the Wilderness battlefield. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 04/19/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW15.1 km | Wilderness Campaign - Spotsylvania VA in U.S. Civil War Sites May 5-6, 1864. The bluecoats of Crawford's Division emerged into the sunlight of this clearing, the Chewning Farm, on May 5 in a predetermined move toward Parker's Store on the Orange Plank Road. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNE15.8 km | Courthouse - Fredericksburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Union army used the courthouse in Fredericksburg to house hundreds of escaping slaves and a signal tower and lookout point during the Battle of Fredericksburg. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 03/24/2012 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE15.8 km | Fredericksburg City Dock-Union Artillery on Stafford Heights - Fredericksburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites In 1862, Union artillery crowned the bluffs once occupied by the Washington farm. When Confederate troops resisted the Union army’s efforts to cross the river on December 11, Burnside turned nearly 150 guns – arrayed along a three-mile front. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/21/2023 last visited: 06/21/2023 |
 view galleryNE15.8 km | Fredericksburg City Dock-Bridges and Biscuits - Fredericksburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Fredericksburg, with its railroad and close proximity to the Potomac River, provided the Union Army with an ideal base for an “On to Richmond” drive. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/22/2023 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE15.8 km | Fredericksburg City Dock-Contesting the Crossing - Fredericksburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Union engineers were constructing a pontoon bridge that would enable Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s Army of the Potomac to cross the Rappahannock River and seize Fredericksburg. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 06/21/2023 last visited: 06/21/2023 |
 view galleryNE15.9 km | Ferry Farm - Fredericksburg, VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Ferry Farm became a combat zone on Dec. 11, 1862, the first day of the battle of Fredericksburg. posted by: DougK location: Virginia date approved: 05/09/2011 last visited: 08/06/2023 |
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