Landram House Trail

Battle of Spotsylvania • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies

The Landram House trail leaves from two places along the Bloody Angle and crosses 1,000 feet of what was no mans land between the Confederate and Union lines to reach a park maintenance road that leads a further .3 mile back to the ruins of Willis Landram’s House. The house  was a Confederate picket post until Union forces overran it on the way to attack the Mule Shoe on the morning of May 12. It then became the headquarters of Union 2nd Corps commander Major General Winfield Scott Hancock. The house, though badly damaged, survived the battle but burned in 1905. The ruins of the house’s chimneys can still be seen today.

Site of the Landram House on the SPotsylvania battlefield

A monument and metal tablet stand with the house’s ruins:
Landram House Site and Tablet and MOLLUS Monument
Two wayside markers are along the trail on the way to the house:
Landram House and Farm to Killing Field wayside markers


View from the Landram House site. The Mule Shoe is in the distance in the woods on the left. Two wayside markers are along the trail on the right.

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