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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5GT_the-killing-fields_Fredericksburg-VA.html
This view, taken a mile behind you, shows the vast open space in front of Marye's Heights only months after the December 1862 battle. Union troops crossed the plain between the town (in the foreground) and Marye's Heights. Some attackers advanced …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5GR_angel-of-maryes-heights_Fredericksburg-VA.html
While the Civil War entailed immense destruction and tragedy, it did not always engender hate. For two days following the battle, wounded Union soldiers, caught between the lines, cried out for water. Though exposure to enemy fire even for a momen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5G9_the-ebert-house-and-store_Fredericksburg-VA.html
You could smell the gingerbread and candy when you went into the store. It was utterly quiet, the only noise was the ticking of a clock...and an elderly lady knitting and rocking.A local resident
On this corner stood the home of the Ebert famil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5G6_original-wall_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Standing here you can clearly see how the Sunken Road got its name. Cut into the base of Marye's Heights, the roadbed sits several feet below the grade of the surrounding hill slope. Stone retaining walls on either side of the road hold the banks …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5G4_fredericksburg-campaign_Fredericksburg-VA.html
December 13, 1862. The Washington Artillery of New Orleans was posted around the Marye House here on Marye's Heights. Col. J. B. Walton, the commanding officer, had his headquarters in the house. This unit and Alexander's Reserve Battalion, which …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5G3_brompton_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The house and grounds are not open to the public.
"The pillars of the porch...were speckled with the marks of bullets. Shells and shot had made sad havoc with the walls and the woodwork inside. The windows were shivered, the partitions torn to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5EK_innis-house_Fredericksburg-VA.html
This frame building, known as the Innis (or "Ennis") house, stands as a mute witness to the terrible combat that engulfed this spot. Located along the Confederate line of battle, the small structure was marred by soldier graffiti and perforated by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5EJ_stephens-family-cemetery_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Buried here are eight members of the Innis, Mazeen, and Stephens families, including the most famous of them all: Martha Stephens.
Local children knew Martha Stephens as "Granny." They also remembered her ever-present apron, the pipe often clen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5E3_the-stephens-house_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The foundation outlined before you marks the wartime home of Edward and Martha Stephens. On December 13, 1862, the house was caught in the vortex of Union attacks against the Sunken Road. Confederate sharpshooters fired from the house windows and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5DC_thomas-r-r-cobb_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The monument across the road marks the spot where General Thomas R. R. Cobb suffered a mortal wound. A brilliant Constitutional lawyer prior to the war, he left his practice to take up arms for the South. At Fredericksburg Cobb fought his first ba…