Spotsylvania Campaign

The road leads to the Landram House ruin, once a small whitewashed dwelling built of squared logs and heated by stone-chimneyed fireplaces during the Civil War. Like similar modest homesteads in the North and South from which Abraham Lincoln and other leaders had sprung, this place was overrun by Lincoln's legions on May 12, 1864. During the severe fighting of that day, it became Gen. W.S. Hancock's headquarters as well as a hospital area and artillery park, and where only a few rural boots had trod, the feet of thousands churned the soil in wet and bloody combat.

Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia · United States