126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry - Spotsylvania Court House VA
N 38° 13.454 W 077° 36.026
18S E 272367 N 4233892
A monument to the soldiers of the 126th Ohio who fought and died during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in May 1864 stands at the Bloody Angle of the battlefield.
Waymark Code: WM945X
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 06/26/2010
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On May 7, 1864, Union Generals Grant and Meade and their troops marched south from two intense days of fighting at Wilderness, VA towards Richmond, as did Confederate General Lee and his troops. Not far down Brock Rd., the armies met again at Spotsylvania Court House, and another battle began that lasted for two weeks.
Some of the bloodiest fighting occurred at the Bloody Angle of the Muleshoe Salient. Soldiers fought in close contact for almost twenty hours straight. It was the longest sustained hand-to-hand fight of the entire Civil War.
After the war, many veterans returned to erect monuments at the Bloody Angle, including the 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The Ohio monument is a granite block with the letters OHIO in relief on the base at the front and the back. It was placed in 1914 and stands on the field where the 126th fought until running out of ammo.
Inscriptions:
Front:
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
THE GALLANT 126TH REG'T O. V. I.
COMMANDED BY
COLONEL BENJAMIN F. SMITH
AND LIEUT,[sic] COLONEL AARON W. EBRIGHT
2ND BRIGADE
3RD DIVISION
6TH ARMY CORPS.
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
Right side:
THESE HEROES FELL TO
THE RIGHT OF THIS POSITION
CAPTAIN.
REUBEN LAMPTON
PRIVATES.
JAMES ATKINSON
JOSHUA C. HOWELL
JOHN H. MYERS
VALENTINE ECKERT
Left side:
OHIO'S TRIBUTE TO
THE HEROES OF THE
GALLANT 126TH REG'T O.V.I.
WHO FELL HERE
MAY 12TH 1864
Back:
THESE HEROES FELL
BEFORE THIS BLOODY ANGLE.
SERGEANTS.
JOHN M. RUSSELL
HENRY RICHARDSON
CORPORAL.
JOHN B. BEATTY
PRIVATES.
ALVIN V. BRASHIER
JOHN H. RAMSEY
WILLIAM WHARTON
JAMES EVERETT
DANIEL ZIGLER
GEORGE W. ARION
JOHN J. ARMSTRONG
JACOB HECATHORN
JOSIAH W. SMITH
DAVID MOSES
JOHN TRUMP
GASHEM ARNOLD
THOMAS M. HERVEY
ABRAM M. POLLOCK
ISAAC HAMILTON
ELAN DYE
MONROE CRAWFORD
JAMES S. KNEALE
MARTIN SWICK
GEORGE W. GILLHART
ENOS E. SWINEHART
LEWIS H. WOLF
The Bloody Angle is on the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield of the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park. The Park and battlefields are open daily dawn to dusk. There is no admission.
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