Archives for April 2018

Pictured is the Shiloh Church (Old Site) building

Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site)

  Inscription: Former slaves, as well as free blacks, realized that education was critical to African-American aspirations. Immediately after the…

pictured here is the wall alongside sunken road trail

The Sunken Road

Inscription: “This photograph was taken shortly after the Confederates in the foreground were killed on May 3, 1863. This graphic…

Pictured here is the To the Confederate Dead Monument with a view of the Confederate Cemetery

To The Confederate Dead

Inscription: “In honor of Confederate Soldiers who died in Fredericksburg Oct 1861 through Mar 1862 and buried in Barton St.…

Pictured here is the entrance to the Willis Hill Cemetery

Willis Hill Cemetery

Inscription:  This quiet hilltop graveyard, dating to the mid-eighteenth century, sheltered Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Fredericksburg. Medical personnel…