Archives for March 2018

Pictured is Fredericksburg National Cemetery viewed from the road

Fredericksburg National Cemetery

Inscription: Approximately 20,000 soldiers died in this region during the Civil War, their remains scattered throughout the countryside in shallow,…

Pictured here is Fredericksburg United Methodist Church

Fredericksburg United Methodist Church

  Inscription: This church sanctuary was built in 1882, the fifth building to be used by the congregation, and the…

pictured here is George Rogers Clark on the March to Vincennes

George Rogers Clark 1752-1818

Inscription: In grateful acknowledgment of the valor and the strategic victories of General George Rogers Clark, Son of Old Virginia,…

Pictured here is the old Fredericksburg National Bank--now the restaurant Foode

“Hostages”

Inscription: In the summer of 1862, Confederate authorities imprisoned four Union men from Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County. The arrested Unionists…

Pictured here is a portrait of Hugh Mercer

Hugh Mercer

Inscription: Sacred to the memory of Hugh Mercer, Brigadier-General in the Army of The United States; He died on the…