| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — 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 Ewell's right joined the left of A.P. Hill's Corps, temporarily under Early. Lane's Brigade of Hill's Corps stopped a portion of Hancock's Corps sweeping down the Salient on the morning of May 12. Later in the day Lane prevented Burnside's IX Corps from cooperating in the general Federal attack. — Map (db m10427) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — 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 lost 20 cannon, upwards of 30 battle flags, several thousand small arms, and nearly all of Gen. Edward Johnson's Division of 3,500 men, including Johnson himself and Gen. George H. Steuart. The Confederate artillery, ordered back to this . . . — Map (db m10397) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — A Mass Capture — Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| | As the first rays of daylight filtered through the rain-drenched woods here on May 12, the men of General George H. Steuart’s brigade heard a commotion up the line, to their left. Moments later, through the shifting mists, they saw a human tidal wave: 20,000 Union soldiers of General Winfield S. Hancock’s Union Second Corps sweeping down the lines to their left and rear. Surprised and defenseless, more than 3,000 Confederate soldiers had little choice but to surrender – one of the largest . . . — Map (db m23846) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — Fighting for Time — Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| | Throughout May 12, Confederates here waged a battle for critical minutes and hours. When Union troops swarmed over the east face of the Muleshoe Salient before dawn, Robert E. Lee knew instantly that the position – even if regained temporarily – could not be held permanently. But to build a new line farther to the rear, he needed time.
Though driven away in the first hour of the battle, the Confederates fought their way back into these works by 7 a.m. For the rest of the day . . . — Map (db m23847) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — 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 Lee's counterattack forced Grant and Meade to weaken Warren's front and throw most of his men into the Salient fight. After Lee fell back to a new line across the base of the "Mule Shoe," the Federals refaced and occupied these Confederate works. Toward the end of the operations this area was abandoned. — Map (db m10403) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — The Confederate Line — Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| | The landscape in front of you bears vivid testimony to the nature of fighting here in May 1864. At Spotsylvania, not only did soldiers build stout dirt and log works to protect them from fire in front, but they also built shorter trenches called traverses to protect them from enemy cross fire (a circumstance common on this part of the line). These traverses extend back from the main line like teeth on a comb. Soldiers came to call the three-sided enclosures "hog pens." Remains of those hog . . . — Map (db m10404) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — 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 ordered to support Hancock's attack. He made futile efforts to dent the eastern face of the Confederate Salient (300 yards behind this marker) defended by Early's (A.P. Hill's) Corps. The ground between the opposing forces at this point was then open. — Map (db m10429) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — 17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment — 9th Corps, 3rd Division, 1st Brigade |
| | (Front): 17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment 9th Corps 3rd Division 1st Brigade Michigan units on the field in the 9th Corps 17th Michigan Vol. Infantry 20th Michigan Vol. Infantry 8th Michigan Vol. Infantry 27th Michigan Vol. Infantry 2nd Michigan Vol. Infantry 1st Michigan Sharpshooters Losses for the 17th Michigan On May 12, 1864 26 killed 70 wounded 100 missing or captured (Back): At 2 p.m., May 12th, two Ninth Corps brigades were ordered to attack the Confederate . . . — Map (db m10431) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — E 127 — Heth's Salient Battle Site |
| | After four days of probing attacks, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered a frontal assault against the Confederate lines at Spotsylvania Court House on 12 May 1864. The focal point of the attack was the Muleshoe Salient, an outward bulge in the Confederate line. While the II and IV Corps struck the head of the salient, resulting in the struggle for the "Bloody Angle," Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps assaulted the Muleshoe's eastern face, known as Heth's Salient, located nearby. Confederate . . . — Map (db m8915) |
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