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The park was established as Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park on February 14, 1927, and transferred from the War Department August 10, 1933. The lengthy name remains its official designation—75 letters, the longest name of any unit in the national park system.
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 and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War.
The following 66 pages use this file: Alsop, Virginia; Andrews Tavern (Spotsylvania County, Virginia) Arcadia, Spotsylvania County, Virginia; Artillery Ridge, Virginia
This is a list of state parks and reserves in the Virginia state park system. Virginia opened its entire state park system on 15 June 1936 as a six-park system. The six original state parks were Seashore State Park (now First Landing State Park), Westmoreland State Park, Staunton River State Park, Douthat State Park, Fairy Stone State Park, and ...
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19503-863-7. OCLC 805415782. Petty, Adam (2019). The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory: Reconsidering Virginia's Most Notorious Civil War Battlefield. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1105557063. Starr, Stephen Z. (2007).
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Spotsylvania County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is a distant suburb approximately 60 miles (90km) south of D.C. It is a part of the Northern Virginia region and the D.C. area. As of 2024, Spotsylvania County is the 14th most populated county in Virginia with 149,588 residents. [7] Its county seat is Spotsylvania Courthouse. [8]
The Brockroad area was the location of many battles fought during the American Civil War, including the battles of Battle of Chancellorsville and The Wilderness. Brock Road Station on the Potomac, Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad was situated on Brock Road at latitude 38°16′28″ north and longitude 77° 40′ 45″ west.