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

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Tapp Field is Stop 6 on the Wilderness Battlefield Auto Tour. It is on the south side of Hill-Ewell Drive about 3 miles southeast of Virginia Route 20 and 0.3 miles west of Orange Plank Road.

A short walk leads to two wayside markers that look over the field:

Widow Tapp’s Field
 Crisis in Tapp Field wayside marker

A trail continues across the half mile wide field from the Stop 6 pull-off to a pull-off along the Orange Plank Road that is not an Auto Tour stop. A number of markers and monuments are along the trail, although many are closer to Orange Plank Road than to the Stop 6 pull-off :

Monuments:

Lee to the Rear!
State of Texas

Historical Markers:

Wilderness Campaign – May 5
Wilderness Campaign – May 6

Wayside Markers

In the Nick of Time
Lee-to-the-Rear
Widow Tapp House

Removed Wayside Markers
(included for historical reference)

Crisis in The Wilderness
Confederate Earthworks
The Texans Attack

Map and directions to Tour Stop 6

Tour Stop Six is on Hill-Ewell Drive about 3 miles southeast of Virginia Route 20 and 0.3 miles west of Orange Plank Road. (38°17’39.9″N 77°43’29.2″W)

Directions to the next stop on the Auto Tour:
Continue east on Hill-Ewell Drive 0.3 mile to Orange Plank Road. Turn left and proceed 0.35 mile. The stop is on the right side.

There are two monuments in between Stop 6 and Stop 7:

The monument to General James Wadsworth is on the north side of Orange Plank Road about 450 feet east of Hill-Ewell Drive. It has a small pull-out on the north side of the road.

The monument to Colonel James Nance is on the south side of Orange Plank Road about 650 feet west of Hill-Ewell Drive. There is no place here to pull off busy Orange Plank Road; it may be safest to park on Hill-Ewell Drive and walk down to the monument.