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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K0Z_lincoln-review_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Nearby here was Sthreshley Farm, site of Abraham Lincoln's Grand Review. On April 8, 1863, 60,000 men passed the president who sat on a horse for the long, 5½ hour review. 10 year old Tad stayed by his father, while Mrs. Lincoln watched from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JFB_george-washingtons-boyhood-home-at-ferry-farm_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Located directly across the river from where you are standing is the site of the boyhood home of George Washington where he lived from the age of six until he was 20. The farm gets its name from the ferry that once crossed the river here, providin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ICP_chancellorsville_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Following "Stonewall Jackson's" successful flank attack and his subsequent wounding on the night of May 2nd, Lee appointed Major General "Jeb" Stuart to command Jackson's Corps. Faced with an imminent threat from the dire…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ICO_colquitts-attack_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"My brigade was thrown to the left. Forming line of battle parallel to the road. I advanced in face of a severe fire to a line of breastworks from which the enemy had been driven. The contest was sharp and fierce for a few moments. I o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ICN_colquitt-turns-tylers-flank_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"I at once saw the enemy outnumbered us, as they were in double lines, and extended beyond our right. I immediately asked for reinforcements, but was informed they could not be furnished. Colonel Webb, who has remained in front for some momen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ICM_tylers-withdrawal-to-this-line_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"Until near noon on May 3rd, the fighting was severe, when the ammunition of the infantry having been exhausted and repeated calls for more being unanswered, the line was forced to retire to the breast-works. The dead and most of the wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GSM_bethlehem-primitive-baptist-church_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Organized 1868 by Rev. York Johnson, an ex-slave, who with 27 others separated from White Oak Primitive Baptist Church. Rev. Johnson, assisted by The Freedmen Bureau, established a benevolent organization "The Union Branch of the True Vine" and fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GB3_duff-mcduff-green-memorial-park_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The Green family was established in Virginia when Duff McFuff Green's great-great grandfather, Robert Green, settled in Orange County in 1710. Duff McDuff Green was born in Stafford county on 2 August 1832 to Capt. Duff Green and Elizabeth Ann Pay…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GB0_the-heights-at-smith-run_Fredericksburg-VA.html
From May 1-3, 1863 Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson fought a powerful federal army to a standstill at Chancellorsville, while Major General Jubal A. Early's division confronted the Union 6th Corps at Fredericksburg. On May 4th, followi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G6E_elmhurst_Fredericksburg-VA.html
has been registered as aVirginia Historic Landmarkby the Virginia Board of Historic Resourcesand placed on theNational Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior
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