Spotsylvania Campaign May 10 6pm marker

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TourStop2The Spotsylvania Campaign May 10 6pm marker is a short distance from Stop 2 on the Auto Tour. This is one of the handful of historical markers in the parks of Spotsylvania County which date back to the 1950s, constructed of a painted aluminum panel in a wood frame.

Spotsylvania Campaign May 10 6pm marker

Upton’s Attack
About 6 p.m.
May 10, 1864

A quarter of a mile beyond this point, their bayonets fixed, Upton’s lines broke silence with a wild cheer as they burst from the piney woods across a 200-yard clearing to the Confederate trenches. Though thrown back by counterattack and losing some 1,000 men in killed, wounded and missing, Upton brought off over 1,000 prisoners. Mott’s division had been expected to attack from the north, but Confederate artillery around the apex of the Salient swept a wide open field and easily kept Mott at bay. Meanwhile, Federal attacks along the Brock Road front also failed.

(go to the Upton’s Road page)
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