Nov 2012 - Jonas & Heather - Civil War in Fredricksburg, VA
Nimue
Sat 24 Nov 2012 21:34
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With our growing knowledge of both Revolutionary and Civil wars and Jonas’s
interest in battle sites and canons (the firing ones!), we took a trip to
Fredericksburg and the Battlefield site.
 Arrival at the Fredericksburg Battle
site visitors centre
  This park historian was very well versed in
this civil war site and gave us an excellent insight into the Battle of
Fredericksburg (1862), focusing on the ‘Sunken Road’ and the ‘Stone
Wall’
Lee’s Confederates were victorious, the town
was devastated and Burnside’s Union Army devastated.
  The Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery,
where 1000’s of casualties are buried.
 Heavy combat took place here at The
Sunken Road, where the stone wall has been reconstructed.
 Using a tour CD in the car about the
battle sites, it took us to the Rappahannock River,
which was crossed by Unions using
pontoon bridges
  Chatham Manor overlooking the
Rappahannock River served as Union Headquarters and a hospital
for 14
months
Into Fredericksburg town for lunch.
  Came across this very autumn look in
Fredricksburg with the statutory pumpkins and the beautiful rustic
trees
 Jonas inspecting one of the canons,
whilst Heather shows slightly less interest!
  On ‘Dead Horse
Hill’
  En route up to Lee’s Hill (also called
Telegraph Hill) From here Gen. Robert E Lee watched the Battle of
Fredericksburg unfold.
 As ever, pictures featuring another
canon
  ...............and
another
..............................and
another! |