James S. Wadsworth
Brigadier General and Brevet Major General
United States Volunteers
commanding the 4th Division
V Corps Army of the Potomac
was mortally wounded near this spot
May 6, 1864 and died two days later
in the field hospital of Hill’s
Confederate Corps:
He fell attempting desperately to
resist a Confederate advance which
threatened the strategic Plank-
Brock Road intersection.
Marker is at the intersection of Orange Plank Road (County Route 621) and Wilderness Park Drive, on the left when traveling east on Orange Plank Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
