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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5G6_original-wall_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Standing here you can clearly see how the Sunken Road got its name. Cut into the base of Marye's Heights, the roadbed sits several feet below the grade of the surrounding hill slope. Stone retaining walls on either side of the road hold the banks …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5G4_fredericksburg-campaign_Fredericksburg-VA.html
December 13, 1862. The Washington Artillery of New Orleans was posted around the Marye House here on Marye's Heights. Col. J. B. Walton, the commanding officer, had his headquarters in the house. This unit and Alexander's Reserve Battalion, which …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5G3_brompton_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The house and grounds are not open to the public.
"The pillars of the porch...were speckled with the marks of bullets. Shells and shot had made sad havoc with the walls and the woodwork inside. The windows were shivered, the partitions torn to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5EK_innis-house_Fredericksburg-VA.html
This frame building, known as the Innis (or "Ennis") house, stands as a mute witness to the terrible combat that engulfed this spot. Located along the Confederate line of battle, the small structure was marred by soldier graffiti and perforated by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5EJ_stephens-family-cemetery_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Buried here are eight members of the Innis, Mazeen, and Stephens families, including the most famous of them all: Martha Stephens.
Local children knew Martha Stephens as "Granny." They also remembered her ever-present apron, the pipe often clen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5E3_the-stephens-house_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The foundation outlined before you marks the wartime home of Edward and Martha Stephens. On December 13, 1862, the house was caught in the vortex of Union attacks against the Sunken Road. Confederate sharpshooters fired from the house windows and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5DC_thomas-r-r-cobb_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The monument across the road marks the spot where General Thomas R. R. Cobb suffered a mortal wound. A brilliant Constitutional lawyer prior to the war, he left his practice to take up arms for the South. At Fredericksburg Cobb fought his first ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5D0_the-confederate-line_Fredericksburg-VA.html
You are now standing beside the Sunken Road, part of a heavily used 19th-century road system that linked Washington, D.C. and Richmond. In 1862, Confederate riflemen fired from the road upon line after line of Union troops advancing across open fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5CR_the-union-attacks-begin_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In 1862 the ground in front of you was an open plain stretching from here to the outskirts of Fredericksburg, one-half mile away. As Union troops left the town to attack Marye's Heights, they had to break ranks to cross a canal ditch, then knock d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ZH_the-meade-pyramid_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Usually thought of as a Union monument, the large pyramid in front of you was in fact erected by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society. In 1897, the society contacted Virginia railroad executives asking them to erect markers at historically si…