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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCP7_confederate-earthworks_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Twisting through the woods one hundred yards ahead of you are two well-preserved lines of earthworks constructed by Confederate forces in the winter of 1862-1863. General Robert E. Lee had ordered his troops to build the trenches in anticipation o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM66I_start-of-sheridans-raid_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Here Sheridan, moving from camp, came into the Telegraph Road on his raid to Richmond, May 9, 1864, while Lee and Grant were fighting at Spotsylvania. The 10,000 Union Cavalry filled the road for several miles. Turning from the road ten miles sout…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM66H_stuart_Fredericksburg-VA.html
At this point J. E. B. Stuart had his headquarters and cavalry camp in December 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5M2_fredericksburg-campaign_Fredericksburg-VA.html
December 13, 1862. This is Hamilton's Crossing, the crossing of the Old Mine Road over the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. Since the railroad was threatened from here to Fredericksburg by long range Federal cannon, Hamilton's Cross…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ZH_the-meade-pyramid_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Usually thought of as a Union monument, the large pyramid in front of you was in fact erected by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society. In 1897, the society contacted Virginia railroad executives asking them to erect markers at historically si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM382_bernards-cabin-trail_Fredericksburg-VA.html
This mile-long trail leads to the site of Bernard's Cabins. On the eve of the Civil War, these cabins (now gone) were home to as many as thirty-five slaves. During the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Confederates turned the terrain surrounding the c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM35M_fredericksburg-campaign_Fredericksburg-VA.html
December 13, 1862. This highway, the Old Richmond Stage Road, here passes wartime Smithfield, now the Fredericksburg Country Club. Out of the ravine alongside the present golf links (your left front), Meade's Division emerged to form lines of batt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM260_fort-hood_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In November 1862, Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood constructed this fort a half mile northeast on the Rappahannock River in an effort to prevent Union gunboats from ascending the river toward Fredericksburg. Four rifled guns of Ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25T_fredericksburg-campaign_Fredericksburg-VA.html
December 13, 1862. Here in the Lansdowne Valley Longstreet's right flank joined with "Stonewall" Jackson's left. Confederate infantry was deployed on the valley floor and cannon rimmed the hills behind, forming a deep pocket in the Confederate lin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25G_union-breakthrough_Fredericksburg-VA.html
At 1:30 p.m., little more than an hour after Union troops began their assaults on Marye's Heights, Gen. George G. Meade's division penetrated "Stonewall" Jackson's line here at Prospect Hill. Meade's 3,800 Pennsylvanians advanced toward a tongue o…