Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield — Attraction in Virginia

This place is a slightly confusing for the first time visitor and especially someone who went with little time. Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg and the Wilderness campaign. If you put Spotsylvania Battlefield in Google you end up out at the battlefield about 9 miles from the visitors center. Chancellorsville and Spotsylvania and Wilderness share a visitors center and then there is the Fredericksburg battlefield visitors center another 10 miles away. If you want Fredericksburg battlefield postcards or other items related to Fredericksburg you need to go the Fredericksburg Visitors Center. The one caveat is that you can find the National park...

A solemn and serene place. A walking path takes you around most of the fighting with a few spots accessible by quick turn offs in your car. The placards give a brief but detailed description of the harrowing fighting that took place for 22 non stop hours at "The Bloody Angle" where the aftermath saw bodies pulled 4 to 5 men deep, a tree 2ft in diameter cut in half by relentless small arms fire and the scope of tens of thousands of men laying dead over what a few days before was simple idyllic farmland.

For those who just like a quiet walk in nature and those who like to learn about history and what war really means, this is a...

Lovely piece of well-preserved Civil War history. I love to come here to walk or run. There are several different trails around the park, and tidbits about the war in that area and the houses that were there before the war. At the entrance there's a place to sit and read about the battles that took place in the area and bathrooms, which are open from 8am-5pm I believe. Overall, nice place if you want to learn more about the Civil War or to just go for a long walk. Also, I loved to come in the mornings during September. Great month for foggy...