
FREDERICKSBURG # 1864 CAMPAIGN SITES # R A Chatham # Gordonsville – Longstreet’s camp. Home to Exchange Union supply wagons P (National Park P Headquarters) Hotel Civil War Museum. crossed the Rapidan River A # Montpelier – Site of Confederate winter camps, 1863–1864. as Federal troops fought H A # Orange – Confederates moved from this area to meet Grant in The Wilderness. N 218 in The Wilderness. N # Town of Culpeper – Union camps dotted area prior O 3 to 1864 Overland Campaign. C T. 3 S LIAM K # Germanna Ford – Union soldiers crossed here May 4, 1864, BURNSIDE WIL starting the Overland Campaign. (Union) To Washington D.C., # Fredericksburg Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter – National Park SEDGWICK Visitor Center 34 miles site at the scene of heavy fighting May 5-6, 1864. (Union) # Brandy Station R Todd’s Tavern – Union and Confederate cavalry clashed (Remington, 11 miles) Battlefield S I here May 6-7, 1864. 522 C O P A P V R R H I O I N A L E # C I Spotsylvania Battlefield – National Park tour reviews S N E Graffiti T S E . R 674 P D S the fighting of May 8-21, 1864. LV S House E B A T T . 663 ET N AY O LAF N A # Spotsylvania Court House Historic District – CULPEPE R E S q City Dock – T T u (Multiple Sites) . Battle shattered the village in 1864. Walking tours available. Fredericksburg Battlefield Pontoon Bridge i O HANCOCK Kelly ’s Ford a Crossing M # Harris Farm – Site of last engagement of Spotsylvania 15 (Union) Visitor Center C r 29 e fighting, May 19, 1864.. 1 ek A 1864 Overland Campaign Historic Route # Zion Methodist Church – Spotsylvania landmark. 612 C Confederate Troop Movements from Camps Union army turned to Massaponax here in May 1864. Cedar Mountain R Battlefield WARREN 3 I # (Union) Massaponax Church – Site of photographs showing V S T AFFO RD 630 Union Troop Movements from Camps Federal high command planning campaign. 29 E ) 95 R # Plantations on Guinea Station Road – Antebellum R R 1864 Overland Campaign Site R C ULP EP ER A homes line route of Union march in May 1864. 629 a R P i A Aquia r Other Civil War Trails Site # Guinea Station – Site of Stonewall Jackson’s death 522 P P Landing James City 15 d I D A n Potomac in 1863 is on Union march route a year later. Battlefield A R 17 Hartwood a N E H Creek 608 Other Civil War Site x I V Church # Bethel Church – Gens. Grant, Meade, and Burnside had MADISO N e R A Bridge l N Po ree headquarters here, May 22-23, 1864. A Germanna N toma C k National, State or County Park O c & Ford 1 # EWELL C K Bowling Green – Union soldiers broke into stores, freed 611 (Confederate) 3 e Mine 608 Information or Welcome Center prisoners, and looted the town May 21, 1864, during march g R n Run I 626 to the North Anna River. MA D ISO N a 610 V r Wilderness Battlefield E Restrooms Handicap Accessible O R # Milford Station – Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac ( Exhibit Shelter Chancellorsville 607 Railroad station. Site of skirmish prior to North Anna, White Oak 231 Battlefield Church/Museum May 20, 1864. O RANGE First Day at 15 Chancellorville 218 # Carmel Church – Union army reunited here in preparation HILL-EWELL DR. FREDE RICKSBURG 621 for attacks at the North Anna River. Locust Grove Rochelle 3 20 Widow Tapp 3 # Ox Ford Battlefield (North Anna River) – Confederates (Jack’s Shop) Farm 29 617 1 turned back Union attacks May 24-25, 1864. Hanover County Salem Church 17 Slaughter Pen Farm One of a series of Parker’s Store park. Tour information for North Anna Battlefield available. 621 photographs by 612 Timothy O’Sullivan • Hanover Junction – Critical railroad junction Lee hoped Montpelier Verdiersville Todd’s Tavern of a Union High to protect by defending the North Anna line. (Winter Camps) Fredericksburg Pelham Harris command meeting # Mangohick Church – Elements of the Union army ORANG E Spotsylvania Battlefield Monument HILL 608 Farm at Massaponax marched past here after the North Anna battle. (Confederate) 613 Battlefield . 17 Church. U.S. Grant D # Ashland – Lee marched his troops through here on the way Visitor Center 522 R 208 704 PIN Spotsylvania is leaning over to Cold Harbor. 20 AR TH 608 A Visitor Center a church pew # 651 C Massaponax Nelson’s Crossing – Union army II and VI Corps crossed Spotsylvania Court House Church conferring with the Pamunkey River here. SP O TSY LVANIA Historic District his commanders. # 608 Haw’s Shop/Enon Church – Fierce cavalry battle fought 231 15 here May 28, 1864. 20 Zion Methodist Church Plantations on Guinea Station/ R A # 612 Stonewall P P C K R Totopotomoy Creek – Site of fighting May 28-June 1, 1864. Guinea Station Road 607 A H A N N O I Jackson Shrine V E # Yellow Tavern – Site of the mortal wounding of Confederate R 33 LONGSTREET 208 P O Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, May 11, 1864. (Confederate) R I 2 651 V # Polegreen Church – Church destroyed by artillery 669 E R 609 June 1, 1864, prior to Cold Harbor. GORDONSVILL E 606 # Meadow Bridge – Union cavalry were nearly trapped after Exchange Battle of Yellow Tavern, May 1864. Hotel 626 # Battlefield at Cold Harbor – A National Park visitor 620 632 center and Hanover County park commemorates and inter - 669 prets the battles fought May 31-June 12, 1864. 15 # Trevilian Station – Cavalry fought here June 11-12, 1864, 33 638 301 as Grant began infantry move. (Multiple Trails sites.) 613 # Long Bridge – Union troops crossed Chickahominy River Bethel Church 605 Trevilian Station BOWLIN G GRE EN here after disengaging at Cold Harbor. (Multiple Sites) # 95 Court House Complex Wilcox’s Landing – Site of main Union army James River 22 and Old Star Hotel crossing, this one via boat. Now a Charles City County park. 207 (No modern bridge.) 669 1 # LOUISA 722 North Bend – Union cavalry headquarters, June 1864. Confederate cavalry Flowerdew Hundred – Parts of Union army crossed to Milford • Station commander J.E.B. this site on pontoon bridge over James River.6 H4 istorical park. LO U IS A 676 Stuart (inset) was (Waynesboro, 38 miles) (No modern bridge.) N O CA ROLINE mortally wounded # 208 R Prince George Court House – Large Federal cavalry T 207 during the Battle 33 H M camp located here. of Yellow Tavern, A A # Baylor’s Farm – African American Union troops involved N T May 11, 1864. To Charlottesville N in fighting here June 15, 1864. A R I V E T (see inset below) 250 R A # Port Walthall Junction – Two actions here in May 1864 P O to control railroad. Confederate soldiers beg Lee to ( V i r 656 g i n 655 N # Swift Creek – Union Gen. Butler repulsed an effort to 29 return to the rear as fighting grows i a I C R disrupt Confederate supply lines, May 9, 1864. 522 intense in The Wilderness. e n t r a l R R ) I 20 Carmel 301 V E R # Ellerslie – Plantation was a key Confederate site during Rio Hill Church Swift Creek fighting. 684 654 North Anna 2 # 250 Battlefield Par k Petersburg National Battlefield – Initial Union assaults Confederate on Petersburg defenses, June 15, 1864. Statues 652 # Cavalry Assault – Site of Union cavalry assault against 64 250 Petersburg, June 9, 1864. CHARLOTTESVILLE Ox Ford Battlefield Hanover Junction 602 # RELATED CIVIL WAR SITES # 64 • Kelly’s Ford – Confederate Maj. John Pelham killed during 30 651 cavalry battle here March 17, 1863. 64 H ANO VE R • Brandy Station Battlefield – Largest cavalry battle on the North American continent, June 9, 1863. 29 • Graffiti House – Union and Confederate soldiers covered 638 plaster walls with still-visible graffiti, 1863–1864. Mangohick • Cedar Mountain Battlefield – Stonewall Jackson led 522 Church Confederates in battle here August 9, 1862. 54 604 • James City Battlefield – Day-long cavalry battle here ALBEMARLE Hanover Oct. 10, 1863. ASHL AND Tavern • Rochelle ( Jack’s Shop) – J.E.B. Stuart was almost 615 54 cornered but escaped during this Sept. 22, 1863 battle. ) 20 33 R • Aquia Landing – Important Union supply base for R 605 campaigns in 1862-1864. c a Potomac Creek Bridge – Union supply trains crossed m • o 95 360 here daily on a “cornstalk and beanpole” bridge. t Nelson’s Lieutenant Colonel Charles L. Chandler o 1 Crossing KI NG • White Oak Church/Museum – Site of Union camp in win - rallying the 57th Massachusetts Infantry P 301 ter of 1862. Museum with related artifacts. at Ox Ford, May 24, 1864. & 615 605 g WILL IA M r Enon Church Fredericksburg Visitor Center – Information here about 2 Haw’s Shop • u U N 30 the city’s Civil War history. b 606 k M K s e 6 Yellow Tavern e A E Y R k r Totopotomoy C P I • City Dock – Union infantry crossed here on a pon toon The first Union attacks on c (J.E.B. Stuart y V Confederate Meadow Farm i Creek ot opotomo bridge before assaulting Lee’s army, Dec. 1862. r 295 Monument) T Cemetery and thinly held Confederate lines E Museum e 643 • Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor Center – Canal Basin Square at Petersburg were successful; 250 d 615 R SCOTTSVILLE e Information here about the battles at Fredericksburg, r Polegreen Church 627 but resistance stiffened F 606 Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Chancellorsville. 6 resulting in a siege. , d 627 Slaughter Pen Farm – Civil War Trust walking trail, site n 628 • o Bethesda R I V of failed Union attack on Jackson’s position, Fredericksburg, S E m Meadow Church E R h M 20 64 Dec.
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