You searched for City|State: fredericksburg, va
Page 21 of 36 — Showing results 201 to 210 of 358
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ZG_gen-stonewall-jackson_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Gen. Stonewall Jackson, by Gen. Lee's request, on this corner, planned the Battle of Fredericksburg.Nov. 27, 1862. U.D.C
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ZF_engines-of-destruction_Fredericksburg-VA.html
On December 13, 1862, nine Confederate cannon on this knoll helped repulse one of two major Union attacks against Jackson's front. At noon, Union infantry crashed into the Confederate infantry line to your right-front. Captain Greenlee Davidson's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ZD_bernards-cabins_Fredericksburg-VA.html
On this knoll stood Bernard's Cabins, a small community that in 1860 was home to about three dozen slaves. The complex consisted of three two-room cabins, a stone-lined well, and perhaps two additional buildings. This was only one of several such …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4R3_embrey-dam_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In 1909-10, the Fredericksburg Water Power Company constructed the Embrey Dam and its power plant on Caroline Street, for the express purpose of generating electric power. The increasing number of uses for this emerging technology encouraged such …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4R0_encounter-at-the-fall-line_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In August of 1608, Captain John Smith and his crew explored the lower Rappahannock from the Chesapeake Bay to a point just upstream from this location. Soon after landing, the group was attacked by Mannahoack Indians, a Siouan people who were gath…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NM_opening-of-the-campaign_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Following its defeat at Fredericksburg in December 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac spent the winter in Stafford County. Across the Rappahannock River, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia kept a defensive position that covered a 25-mile s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NK_roads-through-the-battlefield_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Today, much like it was in the nineteenth century, Spotsylvania County contains very few east-west roads. The few that exist, such as Route 3 before you, are heavily used and follow the same routes as their antebellum predecessors.
The first im…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NJ_confederate-defense-turns-to-offense_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Confronted by overwhelming numbers, Confederate forces fell back from Chancellorsville (three and a half miles in front of you) and established a defensive position here on April 30. General Robert E. Lee instructed Richard H. Anderson, who comman…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NI_mccarty-farm_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Behind you, on the Orange Turnpike, stood the home of Frances McCarty. In 1860, Frances lived here with three members of her family. She owned 120 acres, three slaves, and scratched out a living as a farmer. Like so many residents of Sptosylvania …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NH_earthworks_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"We were digging and fortifying all night."Charles E. DeNoon, Mahone's BrigadeCivil War earthworks, sometimes referred to as breastworks, were built in a fashion much different than modern military trenches. Soldiers started at ground level and bu…