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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSS_kidnapping-of-pocahontas_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Near here, Pocahontas visited friends among the Patawomecks on the Potomac River in April 1613. Capt. Samuel Argall saw an opportunity to capture Pocahontas and exchange her for English prisoners held by her father Chief Powhatan. Argall sought ou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSR_civilian-conservation-corps-company-2363_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Here at Berea, during the Great Depression, was the site of Civilian Conservation Corps Company 2363. This camp, one of many in Virginia, was organized in 1935 and disbanded in 1940. During its existance, the company strung farm fences, planted tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSQ_fredericksburg-campaign_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Frustrated by the Army of the Potomac's lack of progress, President Abraham Lincoln replaced army commander Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan with Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, who assumed command on 9 Nov. 1862. Within a week, he had the army marchi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSP_the-mud-march_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In Jan. 1863, after the Federal defeat at the First Battle of Fredericksburg on 13 Dec., Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside sought to restore the army's morale by crossing the Rappahannock River at Banks's Ford two miles south and attacking the rear of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSH_fredericksburg_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Fredericksburg was established in 1728 and named for Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales and eldest son of King George II. It served as the county seat of Spotsylvania County from 1732 to 1778 and was an important port during the colonial era. In his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS7_potomac-creek-bridge_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The mounds of earth beside you and the stone blocks protruding from it are all that remain of the south abutment of a bridge that once carried the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad across Potomac Creek. During the first year of the Civ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGL_massaponax-church_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Two weeks of fighting at Spotsylvania had resulted in a bloody draw. On May 21, 1864, the Army of the Potomac left its trenches outside the village and began moving east and south, hoping to lure the Confederated into the open where it could attac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGE_massaponax-baptist-church_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Massaponax Baptist Church, built in 1859, served a congregation founded in 1788. On 21 May 1864 Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his commanders conferred on pews in the churchyard as the Union army marched from the Spotsylvania Court House battlefiel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGD_federal-raid_Fredericksburg-VA.html
On 5 Aug. 1862, two detachments of Union troops left Fredericksburg with the intention of damaging the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Brig. Gen. John Gibbon led a brigade of some 2,000 men down Telegraph Road toward Hanover Junction, while Col. L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGC_road-to-guinea-station_Fredericksburg-VA.html
On 4 May 1863, the ambulance bearing wounded Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson from the Chancellorsville battlefield turned east here en route to Guinea Station, where he died on 10 May. A year later, Union troops of the Army o…