Battle of Spotsylvania • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The Compass Rose is one of several erected on the battlefields of Spotsylvania County. This one is at Stop 3 on the Spotsylvania Battlefield Auto Tour. It is on the walking trail just a few yards east of the 49th New York monument. Another Compass is on the Spotsylvania battlefield at the Brock Road entrance to the park.
The Compass Rose shows distances in miles and directions to several locations important to the battle.
Staring from the north and moving clockwise:
N
Brown House 0.8 m
Landram House 0.3 m
Fredericksburg 9 m
Harris Farm 1.9 m
Ny River 1 m
E
Massaponax Church 5.4 m
Fortress Monroe 113 m
Spotsylvania C.H. 1.6 m
S
McCoull House 0.2 m
Lee’s Final Line 0.7 m
Sedgwick Monument 0.9 m
Po River 2.2 m
W
Todd’s Tavern 4 m
Brock-Plank Crossroads 7.9 m
Chancellorsville 6.1 m
Location of the Compass Rose at the Bloody Angle
The monument is on a walking trail at Stop 3 on the Spotsylvania Battlefield Auto Tour. It is about 200 yards from the parking area on the south side of the Confederate embankment. (38°13’24.3″N 77°35’59.8″W)
(go to the main Tour Stop 3 page)
(go to the main Battle of Spotsylvania Auto Tour page)