Fighting along the Po River was just one part of the larger battle at Spotsylvania Court House, which lasted two weeks. On May 9, 1864, under orders from Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the 2nd Corps ...

Stubborn Spotsylvania supervisors were ... a tributary of the Rapidan River, which, in turn, flows into the Rappahannock. The narrow Po still flows through soggy bottomlands.