SPOTTSYLVANIA
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V25,
Page 736
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
SPOTTSYLVANIA
, a See also:county of See also:Virginia, U.S.A., so called after See also:Alexander See also:Spotswood (q.v.), See also:lieutenant See also:governor of Virginia in 1710-1722, who owned extensive estates and mines therein
.
It isbounded on the N. by the Rapidan and Rappahannock See also:rivers and on the S. by the See also:North See also:Anna
.
It is celebrated as containing several of the most famous battlefields of the See also:Civil See also:War—Fredericksburg, See also:Chancellorsville, the See also:Wilderness, and particularly that of Spottsylvania See also:Court See also:House, where the armies of See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant and See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee contended for nearly two See also:weeks (May 8-21, 1864)
.
The battles of Chancellorsville, Wilderness and Spottsylvania are described in the See also:article WILDERNESS
.
End of Article: SPOTTSYLVANIA
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