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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNNM_beleaguered-town_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Union soldiers and officers gazing upon Fredericksburg from this spot in 1862 saw many of the same landmarks visible today. The skyline of this peaceful river town, population 5,000 in 1860, is still dominated by the three steeples of City Hall an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNNL_sow-tend-harvest_Fredericksburg-VA.html
For most of its existence, Chatham had an unchanging rhythm: sow, tend, and harvest, each according to the crop. Most of Chatham's slaves lived out their lives to this seasonal cadence, year after year. More than 50 enslaved workers—sometime…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNNJ_a-changed-landscape_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The sketch below, done by a Union soldier, shows the landscape in front of you as it looked in 1863. During the Civil War, this was the rear of Chatham—a functional space unadorned with gardens or architectural finery. Union soldiers had cut…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNNI_beyond-the-big-house_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Slaves did virtually all the work that kept Chatham worthy of its widespread reputation for productivity, elegance, and hospitality. Before the Civil War, it's unlikely that white residents ever amounted to more than 20 percent of Chatham's popula…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNNH_chatham_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Chatham has watched quietly over Fredericksburg for almost 250 years—an imposing, 180-foot-long brick manor house once visible from much of town. It has witnessed great events and played host to important people. George Washington, Thomas Je…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNND_fredericksburg-and-spotsylvania-national-military-park_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania—this is the bloodiest landscape in North America. No place more vividly reflects the Civil War's tragic cost in all its forms. A city bombarded, bloodied, and looted. Farms large…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMAO_camp-pitcher_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Following its defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac went into winter quarters in Stafford County. Here at Bell-Air (the nearly 400-acre estate of Abraham Primmer, which the Leeland Station community…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLNA_james-hunter_Falmouth-VA.html
Owner of the famed Hunter Iron Works in Stafford County, which manufactured most of the camp utensils and weapons for the Virginia forces during the Revolutionary War. A true patriot, he received little, if any, compensation.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFBB_conway-house_Falmouth-VA.html
Conway House was the home of Moncure Conway who freed himself from the dogmas of his culture and became an abolitionist. He is the only descendent of one of our nation's Founding Fathers to actively lead escaping slaves to freedom, thereby taking …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFBA_the-forlorn-hope_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"A group of soldiers detached from the main group for a very dangerous mission." On December 11, 1862, from the north side of the Rappahannock River in Stafford County, the 7th Michigan Infantry led an amphibious assault against the City of Fre…
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