Union Headquarters

Historical marker location:

Locust Grove, Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Constitution Highway (Virginia Route 20), on the left when traveling west.)

The Battle of the Wilderness. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.

The first slave ship to arrive in the American colonies landed in Virginia in 1619. Virginia became a center of the transatlantic slave trade, and by 1860, Virginia had the largest population of enslaved people in the United States.