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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PL4_a-history-of-floods_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Fredericksburg has experienced floods since its earliest settlement. The Rappahannock River originates 77 miles to the west, in a mountain spring, and the upriver watershed drains a very large expanse. By the time is passes Fredericksburg, the riv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PL3_odd-fellows-lodge_Fredericksburg-VA.html
1892Built for Knights of Pythias Lodge #22 & Myrtle Lodge #50 Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Knights of Pythias Lodge until 1961
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NO1_from-a-burying-ground-to-a-park_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"On motion made and seconded, resolved unanimously that the new burying ground be enclosed with brick...."
Council Minutes of July 6th, 1824
Robert Lewis, Mayor (Buried in the Masonic Lodge Cemetery)
In 1774, St. G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NNU_cavalry-affairs_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Near here Wade Hampton with a small cavalry force surprised and captured 5 officers and 87 men of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, November 28, 1862. At that time Burnside was moving toward Fredericksburg. On February 25, 1863, Fitz Lee, on a recon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NNO_lees-winter-headquarters_Fredericksburg-VA.html
During the winter of 1862-1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee maintained his headquarters in a small clearing in the woods in this vicinity. The camp contained only a few tents and nothing but a flag to indicate it was Lee's headquarters. By mid-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NNH_gun-from-the-css-virginia_Fredericksburg-VA.html
This nine-inch smooth bore "Dahlgren" gun is one of the few remaining artifacts from the CSS Virginia (formerly known as the USS Merrimack). This gun saw action on March 8, 1862 off of Hampton, Virginia when the Virginia encountered and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0U_the-battle-of-fredericksburg-from-lees-hill-december-1862_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"This point, densely wooded when first chosen, became the most important, perhaps, in the entire scene as the position affording the best view of all the field...."
Brig. Gen. W.M. Pendleton,
Lee's Chief of Artillery
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LHA_union-army-ninth-corps_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In the winter of 1863-1863, following the Battle of Fredericksburg, Colonel Edward Harland's Union brigade camped on this site. Six infantry regiments comprised the brigade: the 4th Rhode Island and the 8th, 11th, 15th, 16th and 21st Connecticut. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBY_the-vermont-brigade-counterattacks_Fredericksburg-VA.html
On May 4, 1863, Colonel Lewis A. Grant's brigade of Vermont regiments held the ridge to your right front. Late i the day, Brigadier Generals Harry T. Hays and Robert Hoke launched their Louisiana and North Carolina brigades against a Union line at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K10_cavalry-review_Fredericksburg-VA.html
On April 6, 1863 near here "on an elevated plain", President Lincoln reviewed 13,000-17,000 men on horseback. the cavalry review was said to be the largest in the world. Reporters wrote it was a grand sight "with banners waving, music crashing, an…