Battle of Spotsylvania • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The ‘Lee’s Headquarters’ monument is in the Spotsylvania Court House historic district on the east side of the intersection of Courthouse Road and Brock Road. (see map below)
Courthouse Road was the road to Fredericksburg and Brock Road came directly from the Wilderness Battlefield. This intersection was the strategic objective that Grant sought during the battle.
The monument is a replacement for one of ten monuments placed by the Reverend James Powers Smith on battlefields around Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County in 1903. Smith had been a lieutenant on General Thomas J. Jackson’s staff. Other Smith monuments are the Lee-Jackson Bivouac at Chancellorsville, Arm of Stonewall Jackson at Ellwood, Jackson on the Field at Fredericksburg, Lee’s Hill at Fredericksburg, Stuart and Pelham at Fredericksburg, Battle of Salem Church, Stonewall Jackson died at Guinea Station, and Lee to the Rear at the Wilderness.
Text from the marker:
Lee’s
Headquarters
Battle of
Spotsylvania
Court House
May 10,11,12, 1864
1903 Replaced 1964
Location of the Lee’s Hadquarters Marker in the Spotsylvania Court House Historic District
The marker is south of the battlefield park on the southeast side of the intersection of Brock Road and Courthouse Road. (38.20171° N, 77.588967° W)
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