Battle of Spotsylvania • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The Landram House site is at the end of a walking trail about 1,000 yards from the parking lot at Tour Stop Three. The site includes the remains of the chimney of the Landram House, a marker about the house, and the MOLLUS monument.
Landram House marker and chimney
Text from the marker:
Landram House
These stone chimneys are all that remain of the Landram house, a prominent landmark during the Spotsylvania Campaign. The Confederate picket reserve stood here shivering in the early morning fog on May 12, 1864 when the silence was suddenly shattered by the assault of 20,000 Federals of the II Corps. The sentries were quickly engulfed and the blue wave swept over the 550 yards of rolling open terrain crashing into the surprised rebels at the salient. Shortly after 7:00 a.m. General Hancock, commanding the II corps, moved his headquarters forward to the Landram house in plain view of the day-long fighting. Unlike so many soldiers who passed it, the Landram house survived the battle only to fall prey to fire in the more peaceful times of 1905.
(above and below) The ruins of the stone chimneys of the Landram farmhouse.
The Landram House wayside marker on the path leading to the site has more information about the Landram family and the house.
The MOLLUS monument
The monument is next to the Landram House marker tablet. The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (known as MOLLUS, or the Loyal Legion) is a patriotic order made up of the descendents of officers of the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps who served in the CIvil War.
Text from the monument:
These one hundred and sixty-two acres, known
as the Landram Farm, were presented to the
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National
Military Park by the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States commandery
of the State of Pennsylvania and dedicated
on May 11th, 1940 to the memory of the
valiant men who fought here.
Location of the Landram House site
The site is at the end of a 1,000 yard trail from Stop 3 on the Auto Tour. (38.228126° N, 77.59338° W)
(go to the main Landram House Trail page)
(go to the main Battle of Spotsylvania Auto Tour page)