— The Battle of Fredericksburg —
"There is a private cemetery on the crest, surrounded by a brick wall. Burnside's artillery had not spared it. I looked over the wall, which was badly smashed in places, and saw the overthrown monuments and broken tombstones lying on the ground."| HM Number | HM5I8 |
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| Placed By | Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park - National Park Service - U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Sunday, September 7th, 2014 at 1:10pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18S E 284082 N 4241310 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 38.29391667, -77.46898333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 38° 17.635', W 77° 28.139' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 38° 17' 38.10" N, 77° 28' 8.34" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 540 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 1013 Lafayette Blvd, Fredericksburg VA 22401, US |
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My 5th great grandfather is Henry Willis. He died at Willis Hill Fredricksburg Virginia in 1740. Was this hill or graveyard named after him I wonder? And is this the place where he was buried? It all seems kind of odd, because I have family members who fought there in the Civil War as well.
Don Sutton