Official Web Site =This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to Spotsylvania County Virginia. See the Related Projects for details. Patrick Sullivan has written a fantastic series of blogs about various of the Ancient Ancestors in the Spotsylvania county and surrounding area. He began with the Row family, but has expanded to many of the collateral families kin by blood or ma...
Wikipedia =The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign. It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville. Two related battles were fought nearby on May 3 in the vicinity of Fredericksburg. The campaign pitted Union Army Maj. Gen. Joseph...
Wikipedia =______________The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes more simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania (or the 19th-century spelling Spottsylvania), was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the bloody but inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, Grant's army disengaged from Confederate General ...
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. The combat, between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee, included futile frontal attacks by the Union army on December 13 against entrenc...
The Harris Farm Engagement was a military engagement between the Union Army and the Confederate States Army. The Harris Farm Engagement was a part of the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse. The battle was led by Union Major General Winfield S. Hancock and Confederate general Richard S. Ewell. The battle was caused when the Union commander, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered Hancock's Union II Cor...
The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, V...
This project is to document interments in the Dillard Family Cemetery, Spotsylvania County, Virginia.We know the monument says "In memory of the members of the Tyman and Dillard families that are buried here"...The front of the monument indicates that Ann M Dillard had it erected.So far - we have not been able to document any other people buried here.If you have any information concerning the f...
This project is to document interments in the Leavell Family Cemetery, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The Leavell Family Cemetery is in the Fox Point subdivision, between 6107-6111 Sweetbriar Drive, Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
The Battle of Todd's Tavern was fought in Spotsylvania County, Virginia during the American Civil War. Wikipedia
The Battle of Salem Church, also known as the Battle of Banks' Ford, took place on May 3 and 4, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, as part of the Chancellorsville Campaign of the American Civil War. Wikipedia
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This project is to document interments in the Harris Seay Talley Family Cemetery, Spotsylvania County, Virginia.Located off of Robert E Lee Drive: 38 15' 11" N 77 38' 57" W 338 ft Point Of Contact For This Page: Donald Colvin