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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YL_the-battle-of-fredericksburg_Fredericksburg-VA.html
This landscape, now changed by commercial and residential development, once swarmed with Union soldiers. Forty thousand Northern troops, led by General William B. Franklin, having crossed the Rappahannock River, massed here on the plain south of F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YH_the-gallant-pelham_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia had no braver officer than Major John Pelham. Although just 24 years old, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Alabamian had already proven himself on more than half a dozen battlefields in Maryland and Virginia. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YD_lees-greatest-triumph_Fredericksburg-VA.html
As Union resistance around the Chancellor house dissolved, Robert E. Lee rode into the clearing behind his victorious battalions. Though badly outnumbered, Lee in three days had stopped the initial Union advance, brazenly split his own army to lau…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XZ_climactic-struggle_Fredericksburg-VA.html
On the morning of May 3, 1863, more than 17,500 men fell killed or wounded in the woods and fields around you - one man shot every second for five hours. Entrenched Union lines in front of you collapsed, and the Confederates surged forward to seiz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XY_the-chancellorsville-intersection_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The intersection in front of you was the focal point of the Chancellorsville Battlefield. From here roads radiated in five directions. Four of them are visible; the fifth, River Road, lies just beyond the trees to your left. From this intersection…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJ_chancellorsville-clearing_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Vicious fighting surged back and forth across this large clearing on the morning of May 3. From here, you can clearly see the two key Union positions; Fairview, to your right front near the brick wall of the Chancellor Cemetery; and the Chancellor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VK_plantations-on-guinea-station-road_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Lee vs. Grant - The 1864 Campaign
Union troops took this road on May 21, 1864, as they left Spotsylvania and headed toward Guinea Station. One year earlier, "Stonewall" Jackson's ambulance had used this same road to carry the wounded Confederat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VE_lives-transformed_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In 1860, Oscar Bullock and his wife, Catharine, lived in a modest two-and-one-half-story white frame house on this site. With them lived their two infant children and Catharine's 16-year-old brother, David Kyle (who would serve as a guide to Stone…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VC_apex-of-hookers-last-line_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Earthworks to your right rear mark the apex of Hooker's last line of defense. The Federals retreated to this position late in the morning of May 3, guarding the roads to Ely's and United States Fords. The defensive minded Union commander sat virtu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8_hookers-final-bastion_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The low earthworks opposite are the apex of the final Union line at Chancellorsville. After suffering defeat in the massive fighting on May 3, Hooker's army started digging. The result: a powerful, U-shaped line six miles long supported by 100 can…