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Battle of Spotsylvania • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies

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Each of the links below takes you to a page on this site with a description of the monument or marker along with photographs, text, and a map location.

Monuments on the Spotsylvania Battlefield

There are only a handful of monuments on the Spotsylvania battlefield. The first was dedicated in 1887 to John Sedgwick, the commander of the Union Sixth Corps and the senior United States Army officer to be killed in the Civil War. Three Union regimental monuments at the Bloody Angle and the monument to the Union Maryland Brigade followed from 1902 to 1914. It was eighty years before the next monument was placed on the Spotsylvania Battlefield. In 1994 the Upton’s Charge monument was dedicated, honoring both the Union attackers and the Confederate defenders. The monument to the 17th Michigan followed in 1997.

It was not until 2001 that the first Confederate monument was placed on the battlefield. It was dedicated to Ramseur’s North Carolina Brigade. A monument to McGowan’s South Carolina Brigade followed in 2009.

• Battle of Spotsylvania U.D.C. monument
• Confederate Soldiers Monument
  
• Compass Rose at the Bloody Angle
  
• Compass Rose at Brock Road
  
• Lee’s Headquarters Monument
  
• Maryland Brigade (USA) Monument
  
• McGowan’s South Carolina Brigade
  
• 17th Michigan Infantry Regiment
  
• MOLLUS monument
  
• 15th New Jersey Infantry Regiment
  
• 49th New York Infantry Regiment
  
• 126th Ohio Infantry Regiment
  
• Major General John Sedgwick
  
• Ramseur’s North Carolina Brigade
  
• Upton’s Charge

Historical Markers on the Spotsylvania Battlefield

The earliest roadside markers in the parks of Spotsylvania County were placed in the 1950s. They were painted aluminum panels set in a wooden framework. Only a few are left today.

• Spotsylvania Campaign May 8-10 historical marker
  
• Spotsylvania Campaign May 10 6 p.m. historical marker

Wayside Markers on the Spotsylvania Battlefield

As printing display technology progressed colorful wayside markers were placed to tell the story of the battle. Over three dozen wayside markers on the Spotsylvania battlefield help visitors interpret and understand the battlefield and what hapened here.

• Aftermath
  
• A Mass Capture
  
• Attack on the Muleshoe
  
• Bloody Angle, Crowded Ravine
  
• Civil War Earthworks
  
• Confederate Counterattack
  
• Confederate Earthworks
  
• Confederate Line
  
• Containing the Enemy
  
• Dawn Assault
  
• Death of Sedgwick
  
• Farm to Killing Field
  
• Fatal Mistake at the East Angle
  
• Fight for the Fences
  
• Fighting for Time
  
• Forming for the Attack
  
• Fredericksburg Road
  
• Grant’s May 18th Attack
  
• Harrison House
  
• Heth’s Salient
  
• Heth’s Salient E127
  
• Historic District
  
• If It Takes All Summer
  
• In the Path of War
  
• Laurel Hill
  
• Laurel Hill Trail
  
• Landram House tablet
  
• Landram House wayside marker
  
• Lee to the Rear!
  
• Mayhem in the Muleshoe
  
• McCoull House
  
• Muleshoe Salient
  
• Ninth Corps
  
• Race for Spotsylvania Court House
• Spindle House
  
• Struggle Bloody Angle
  
• Toughest Fight Yet
  
• Upton’s Assault
  
• Upton’s Trail
  
• Warren’s Line