The Battle of Harris Farm Use the First >> button above to see these markers in sequence.| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — EM-2 — Engagement at Harris Farm (Bloomsbury) | | | On 19 May 1864 Confederate forces commanded by Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell attacked Brig. Gen. Robert O. Tyler's heavy artillery division on the Union right flank near the Harris farm, Bloomsbury, about one-quarter mile northwest. Newly arrived from the forts protecting Washington, D.C., the inexperienced "heavies" fought as infantry and stubbornly held their ground. At dark Ewell withdrew, ending the last major engagement of the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. The Confederates suffered 900 . . . — Map (db m3656) | | Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — The Battle of Harris Farm Final Battle Around Spotsylvania Court House Harris Farm Battlefield Civil War Site | | | From May 8-18, 1864, Union troops battered Gen. Robert E. Lee's lines at Spotsylvania Court House. Unable to defeat the Confederates by direct assault, Union commander Ulysses S. Grant determined to head south, drawing Lee out of his Spotsylvania defense. Suspecting Grant's move, Lee ordered Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell to located the Union army's right flank. On May 19, 1864, Ewell sent his entire corps, reduced by recent fighting to just 6,000 men, on a reconnaissance-in-force toward the . . . — Map (db m9046) | | Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — Seeing the Elephant The 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery at Harris Farm Harris Farm Battlefield Civil War Site | | | Union heavy artillery regiments serving as infantry shouldered the brunt of the fighting at Harris Farm. The "Heavies," as the members of the heavy artillery units were called, had been pulled from forts protecting Washington, D.C., to make up for the losses Grant had suffered in the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania Court House. Veteran soldiers jibed the green troops in their fresh uniforms, calling them "bandbox soldiers." The 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery was one of several regiments that . . . — Map (db m9006) | | Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Spotsylvania — First Regiment Heavy Artillery Massachusetts Volunteers | | | In commemoration of the deeds of the First Regiment Heavy Artillery Massachusetts Volunteers (Armed as Infantry) Three hundred and ninety eight of whose members fell within an horn around this spot during an action fought May 13, 1864 Between a division of the Union Army commanded by General Tyler and a corps of the Confederate forces under General Ewell. Erected by the survivors of the regiment 1901 Massachusetts — Map (db m9048) |
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