Third Division

Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps

Third Division

Brig. General Samuel W. Crawford

First Brigade Col. William McCandless

Third Brigade Col. Joseph W. Fisher

July 2. Moved to Little Round Top late in the day and went into ...

To Honor the Men and Women of the City of Shelton

To Honor

The Men and Women of the City of Shelton

Who Served Their Country and In Memory of Those

Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice

Killed In Action

World War I

Arena, Thomas USA • Bernabeo, Joseph USA • ...

The Fighting Ends in Stalemate

Wilderness Exhibit Shelter

Stalemate

Two days of bitter fighting had left the bleak Wilderness landscape charred and smoking from fire. Corpses littered the contested ground, now scarred by miles of earth-and-log entrenchments. Unwilling to attack Lee's strong position, Grant ordered a night ...

Struggle on the Orange Plank Road

Wilderness Exhibit Shelter

Crisis at the Crossroads

Crises followed one after another on May 5. No sooner had Grant and Meade learned about Ewell's approach on the Orange Turnpike than they discovered General A.P. Hill's corps moving up the Orange Plank road. ...

Battle of the Wilderness

Wilderness Exhibit Shelter

The Armies

The Army of the Potomac

Throughout the winter of 1863-1864, the armies rested and refitted on opposites sides of the Rapidan River. The ranks of the Union army swelled with thousands of new draftees and recruits - soldiers ...

Lee’s Headquarters

Just to the east stood the Clarke house (Lockwood), wherein Gen. Robert E. Lee made his field headquarters, 28-31 May 1864. While here, and though ill, Lee deployed troops to key positions in Hanover County, including Haw's Shop, Totopotomoy Creek, ...

Life on the Edge

The billions of colorful microorganisms lining this hot spring’s runoff channels are called “extremophiles” because they live in conditions that were once thought to be too extreme to host life. Extremophiles that live in hot springs are called “thermophiles”—heat-lovers.

Miniature Forests

Within ...

The Federals Fall Back

In front of you are the remains of trenches manned by the Union army on May 5-6, 1864. When Gordon attacked these works from the north, your left, the Federals abandoned them and fell back to a new position one ...

Chestnut Ridge

Death of Ashby

On June 6, 1862, the vanguard of Union Gen. John C. Frémont’s force, pursuing Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s army south up the Shenandoah Valley, reached this point near Harrisonburg. Jackson’s rear guard, led by Gen. Turner ...

Rowan County World War I Memorial

Erected by the Elizabeth

Maxwell Steele Chapter

of the Daughters of the

American Revolution

in memory of the

Rowan County boys

who fought in the

World War - 1919

Marker is on N Main Street (U.S. 29), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org