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The principal building is the Spotsylvania Court House, a two-story Roman Revival style brick building built in 1839-1840 and extensively remodeled in 1901. The front facade features a tetrastyle portico in the Tuscan order. Associated with the courthouse is a late 18th-century jail and office and storage buildings erected in the 1930s.
John Sedgwick. John Sedgwick (September 13, 1813 – May 9, 1864) was an American military officer who served as a Union Army general during the American Civil War. He was wounded three times at the Battle of Antietam while leading his division in an unsuccessful assault against Confederate forces, causing him to miss the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia. Spotsylvania Courthouse is a census-designated place (CDP) and the county seat of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States, located 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Fredericksburg. Recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census designated place (CDP), the population was 5,610 at the 2020 census.
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House order of battle: Union This page was last edited on 22 March 2024, at 16:01 (UTC). Text is available under ...
5,414 wounded. 5,758 captured or missing [6] 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.
Fairview. December 30, 1993. (#93001460) 2020 Whitelake Dr. 38°14′25″N 77°30′51″W / 38.240278°N 77.514167°W / 38.240278; -77.514167 (Fairview) Fredericksburg. Federal-style home built in 1837 by Samuel Alsop, Jr., architect and builder who designed a number of buildings in Spotsylvania. 3. Fredericksburg and ...
As of 2024, Spotsylvania County is the 14th most populated county in Virginia with 149,588 residences. [7] Its county seat is Spotsylvania. [8] Located along the Rappahannock River bordering the City of Fredericksburg and Stafford County, Spotsylvania County is part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical ...
Thomas Orville Seaver (December 23, 1833 – July 11, 1912) rose to the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War and received the Medal of Honor, America's highest military decoration, for his actions at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. After the war Seaver was admitted to the Vermont bar and practiced law, serving ...