Civil War Category

Picture of the landscape in Hurkamp Park
April 23, 2018
by Lakelyn Wiley

From Burying Ground to Park

Inscription: In 1774, St. George’s Parish purchased the land around you for a cemetery. Following the American Revolution and disestablishment…

Picture of the Heights at Smith Run plaque
April 23, 2018
by Jay Gaddie

The Heights at Smith Run

Inscription: From May 1-3, 1863 Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson fought a powerful federal army to a standstill…

Pictured here is the old Fredericksburg National Bank--now the restaurant Foode
March 31, 2018
by Lakelyn Wiley

“Hostages”

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

Pictured here is the view up Hanover Street towards Marye's Heights.
April 3, 2018
by Milen Mehari

Marye’s Heights

Inscription: A Northern photographer took this picture of Marye’s Heights in May 1864, setting up his camera in front of…

Pictured here is the Ravaged Town State Marker
April 10, 2018
by Milen Mehari

Ravaged Town

Inscription:  Fredericksburg had enjoyed more than a century of comfortable prosperity by 1860. Although its economic heydey was past, the…

pictured here is the wall alongside sunken road trail
April 17, 2018
by Jay Gaddie

The Sunken Road

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