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Massaponax Baptist Church E78 |
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 Picture courtesy of Ron Roades
 Picture courtesy of Ron Roades
 Library of Congress, Picture by Timothy O'Sullivan 21 May 1864
Massaponax Baptist Church, built in 1859, served a congregation founded in 1788. On 21 May 1864 Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his commanders conferred on pews in the churchyard as the Union army marched from the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield to North Anna River. Photographer Timothy O’Sullivan hauled his heavy stereo camera to the balcony of the church and recorded this conference in a unique series of candid images showing a war council in progress.
Department of Historic Resources 1991
Route 608 near Route 1 Spotsylvania County Virginia.
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