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Widow Tapp House - Wilderness
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Emily
March 3, 2021
Major fighting and several interesting incidents happened in this field. Although owned by James Horace Lacy, the owner of Ellwood, the field was farmed by a 55-year-old widow named Catharine Tapp. On the morning of May 6, 1864, Union forces assaulted A.P. Hill's Corps along the Orange Plank Road. Unprepared and outnumbered, Hill's men fell back through the Tapp Field. The timely arrival of James Longstreet's Corps supported by William Poague's artillery (represented by the artillery pieces in the field) stopped the Union advance.
Major fighting and several interesting incidents happened in this field. Although owned by James Horace Lacy, the owner of Ellwood, the field was farmed by a 55-year-old widow named Catharine Tapp. On the morning of May 6, 1864, Union forces assaulted A.P. Hill's Corps along the Orange Plank Road. U…
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Lake of the Woods, VA