Results for Spotsylvania Campaign
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. Burnside's IX Corps, having swung east in it...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. From this point the trenches of the Confeder...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. In the large scale attack of this day, Warre...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. About 4:30 a.m. Hancock's Federal II Corps, ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. About 6 a.m. Wright's VI Corps advancing to ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. Union commanders Grant and Meade determined ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
This road leads to the Landram House ruin. In the days of ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 10,1864. After a day of sporadic fighting, the Federal...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 10, 1864. Here along the west face of the Confederate ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 18, 1864. About dawn, Hancock's and Wright's Corps adv...
Results for Spotsylvania Campaign
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. Burnside's IX Corps, having swung east in its march from the Wilderness, engaged the Confederates by way of the Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania Road and held the Federal left in this area. On the morning of May 12 Burnside was ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. From this point the trenches of the Confederate Salient run southward. This road continues westward along a secondary line which was held by Gordon's Division. Gordon's line tied into the east face of the Salient here, where ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. In the large scale attack of this day, Warren's V Corps on the Federal right and Burnside's IX on the left engaged the Confederate forces facing them while Wright's VI moved to help Hancock. The seriousness of ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. About 4:30 a.m. Hancock's Federal II Corps, in one of the greatest surprise attacks of the War, struck Ewell's Confederate Corps entrenched here. Advancing in a solid rectangular mass, the Federal troops overwhelmed the defenders. The Confederates ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. About 6 a.m. Wright's VI Corps advancing to support Hancock's attack occupied the area in front of the Confederate works on the west face of the Salient. Here at a slight bend in the line, the area ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 12, 1864. Union commanders Grant and Meade determined to exploit the Confederate "Mule Shoe." Early in the morning they sent Hancock's II Corps against the apex of the Salient (300 yards east). Hancock took the trenches on either side ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
This road leads to the Landram House ruin. In the days of the Civil War it was a small whitewashed dwelling built of squared logs and heated by stone-chimneyed fireplaces. From similar modest homesteads, North and South, had spring Abraham ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 10,1864. After a day of sporadic fighting, the Federal high command sent Col. Emory Upton and twelve picked regiments of the VI Corps to strike the west face of the Confederate Salient. Starting in this vicinity near the Scott ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
May 10, 1864. Here along the west face of the Confederate Salient, or "Mule Shoe," Dole's Brigade of Ewell's II Corps had been alert all afternoon. At 6 p.m., when Federal cannonading ceased, it seemed the day would end quietly. ...
Spotsylvania Campaign
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 ...
