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. A monument and metal tablet stand at the house’s ruins and a wayside marker is on the trail on the way to the house:
MOLLUS Monument
Landram House Site and Tablet
Landram House wayside marker
Farm to Killing Field wayside marker
View of the Muleshoe from the Landram House trail
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