children” and advocated compensation and aid for the survivors.
He actively organized troops during the Spanish American War and even volunteered to leave retirement to see combat in World War I. When General Nelson Miles died in 1925, he was buried with military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
Miles’s memorable defense of the Union lines at Chancellorsville occurred on the preserved tract of land now called McLaws Wedge. Preserved in the early days of the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust, the property has since been incorporated into Chancellorsville National Battlefield where a tour stop on the walking trail interprets Miles’s defense and wounding.
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The land where Miles battled near the historic Blockhouse Bridge during the Battle of Po River segment of Spotsylvania Court House is one of two tracts Central Virginia Battlefields Trust preserved in the early 2000’s.
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This site is not currently open for
Confederate, Obsolete and
public access, but hopefully, it will be interpreted in the future.
