Battle of Spotsylvania • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The Landram House site and its marker are at the end of a walking trail about 1,000 yards from the parking lot at Tour Stop Three. The marker is next to the MOLLUS monument.
The Landrum House wayside marker on the path leading to the site has more information about the Landram family and the house.
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 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)