Brock Road-Orange Plank Road Intersection

Brock Road-Orange Plank Road Intersection

On the morning of May 5, 1864, this may well have been the most important intersection in America! The two wings of the Army of the Potomac were separated from the crossroads - one concentrating along the Orange Turnpike, and General Winfield Hancock's several miles south. Confederate General A.P. Hill's corps was headed straight down the Orange Plank Road. If Hill reached the intersection first he could cut the Union Army in two.