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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG7_spanish-war-veterans_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In memory of our comrades who encamped on this site prior to the campaign in Cuba during the War with Spain 1898-1899.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG6_camp-cobb-at-gunnery-springs_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Camp Cobb at Gunnery Springs N-30 In 1775, during the Revolutionary War, this "noble spring" was part of a 10½-acre tract purchased for the Fredericksburg Gun Manufactory. On this site in 1898 stood Camp Cobb, a Spanish-American War training …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG5_fredericksburg-gun-manufactory_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The Fredericksburg Gun Manufactory was established by an ordinance passed by Virginia's third revolutionary convention on 17 July 1775. Built on this site soon thereafter by Fielding Lewis and Charles Dick, it was the first such factory in America…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF8_the-fifth-corps-army-of-the-potomac_Fredericksburg-VA.html
To commemorate the valor of the Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, and in loving memory of its heroic dead this monument has been erected by Major General Daniel Butterfield, U.S.V., its commander on this field December 13th 1862. Organized July…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF4_battles-of-fredericksburg_Fredericksburg-VA.html
During the First and Second Battles of Fredericksburg, the Confederates occupied Marye's Heights, a defensive position enhanced by a sunken road and stone wall on the eastern slope. On 13 Dec. 1862, during the first battle, Lt. Gen. James Longstre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEQ_lees-position_Fredericksburg-VA.html
From this hill (now called Lee's Hill) a little to the east, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee watched the First Battle of Fredericksburg. As armies prepared for combat, Lee commented that "It is well that war is so terrible—we should grow too …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEP_fredericksburg_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Captain John Smith was here in 1608; Lederer, the explorer, in 1670. In May 1671 John Buckner and Thomas Royster patented the lease land grant. The town was established in 1727 and lots were laid out. It was named for Frederick, Prince of Wales, F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM33_kirkland-monument_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In memoriam · Richard Rowland Kirkland · Co. G, 2nd South Carolina Volunteers · C.S.A. At the risk of his life, this American soldier of sublime compassion, brought water to his wounded foes at Fredericksburg. The fighting …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM31_kenmore_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Four blocks west stands Kenmore, built in 1775 by Col. Fielding Lewis for his wife, Betty, sister of George Washington. Near here, between Kenmore and the Rappahannock River, stood Lewis's warehouses and docks. Kenmore's intricate plasterwork is t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM30_the-lewis-store_Fredericksburg-VA.html
1749 · Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, Inc. · Restoration in 2002. Councilor John Lewis (1694-1754) of Warner Hall in Gloucester County purchased 406 ac. at Fredericksburg's northern edge in 1742 and soon began a mercantile op…