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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RX_127th-regiment-pennsylvania-volunteer-infantry_Fredericksburg-VA.html
(Front):127th RegimentPennsylvaniaVolunteerInfantryCol. W. W. JenningsCommanding 3rd Brigade2nd Division2nd Corps (Rear):127th RegimentPennsylvania Volunteer InfantryCol. W. W. Jennings Commanding3rd Brigade 2nd Division 2nd Corps—&mda…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5M0_big-gun-at-howison-hill_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Two weeks of Union delay before the Battle of Fredericksburg gave the Confederates time to bring up large cannons rarely seen on other battlefields in Virginia. The sturdy gun emplacements above you protected a huge siege gun, capable of firing a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5LZ_near-disaster_Fredericksburg-VA.html
On this hill on December 13, 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee twice nearly met personal disaster. While firing its 39th round of the day, a 30-pounder Parrott Rifle (like the one in front of you) burst, sending chunks of metal across the hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5LY_lees-command-post_Fredericksburg-VA.html
This hill served as General Robert E. Lee's command post during the Battle of Fredericksburg. Before the fighting started, Confederate pioneers cut down trees on the front slope of the hill, giving the Confederate leader a better view of the battl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5LU_lees-headquarters_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The hill in front of you, once called Telegraph Hill but now known as Lee's Hill, served as General Robert E. Lee's headquarters during the Battle of Fredericksburg. Throughout the afternoon of December 13, 1862, Lee and his generals watched uneas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5LR_ootsa-lake-nechako-reservoir_Fredericksburg-BC.html
In 1952, the Kenney Dam was constructed on the Nechako River to service the new Alcan aluminum smelter at Kitimat, resulting in the creation of the Nechako Reservoir and the relocation of over 75 families. The damming also linked the rivers and la…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5LQ_the-sunken-road_Fredericksburg-VA.html
For 130 years, this was a road like thousands of others. First called the County Road, then Telegraph Road, it carried farmer's wagons into Fredericksburg or townsfolk to visit relatives in the country. During the 1830s an adjacent landowner built…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5LP_collins-overland-international-telegraph_Quesnel-BC.html
Promoted by Perry Collins, the U.S. Commercial Agent in Russia, and dependent on the Western Union Telegraph Company's money, men and technology for its execution, this early telegraph line roused the enthusiasm of the white residents of British C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5LO_fredericksburg-national-cemetery_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Approximately 20,000 soldiers died in this region during the Civil War, their remains scattered throughout the countryside in shallow, often unmarked, graves. In 1865 Congress established Fredericksburg National Cemetery as a final resting place f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5LN_parkers-battery_Fredericksburg-VA.html
May 3, 1863In this vicinity the men of Parker'sConfederate Battery (the "Boy Company")under Lt. J. Thompson Brown foughttwo guns, twice gallantly assisting inrepulsing the Union VI Corps beforebeing outflanked and overwhelmed.
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