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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGB_james-farmer-civil-rights-leader_Fredericksburg-VA.html
James Leonard Farmer was born in Texas on 12 Jan. 1920. In 1942, he and other Civil Rights leaders founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Chicago. CORE used Gandhi-inspired tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest discriminat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGA_longstreets-winter-headquarters_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Following the Battle of Fredericksburg in Dec. 1862, Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet established his headquarters in a tent near here. His command center was in close proximity to Generals Robert E. Lee and J. E. B. Stuart. Longstreet comman…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG9_the-chancellorsville-campaign_Fredericksburg-VA.html
While General Robert E. Lee engaged the Union army at Chancellorsville, Confederate Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early confronted a smaller Union force led by Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick at Fredericksburg. On 3 May 1863, Sedgwick overran Early's lines at Marye'…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG8_cox-house_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Across the road to the northeast stood the Cox House, also known as the Wiatt House. In December 1862, Confederate Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws's division used it as a hospital, and there on 13 December, Brig. Gen. Thomas R. R. Cobb died from wounds…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG7_spanish-war-veterans_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In memory of our comrades who encamped on this site prior to the campaign in Cuba during the War with Spain 1898-1899.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG6_camp-cobb-at-gunnery-springs_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Camp Cobb at Gunnery Springs N-30 In 1775, during the Revolutionary War, this "noble spring" was part of a 10½-acre tract purchased for the Fredericksburg Gun Manufactory. On this site in 1898 stood Camp Cobb, a Spanish-American War training …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG5_fredericksburg-gun-manufactory_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The Fredericksburg Gun Manufactory was established by an ordinance passed by Virginia's third revolutionary convention on 17 July 1775. Built on this site soon thereafter by Fielding Lewis and Charles Dick, it was the first such factory in America…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG3_george-washingtons-childhood-home_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The Washington family moved to a plantation here in 1738 when George Washington was six years old. Along with his three brothers and sister, young Washington spent most of his early life here, where, according to popular fable, he cut down his fat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF8_the-fifth-corps-army-of-the-potomac_Fredericksburg-VA.html
To commemorate the valor of the Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, and in loving memory of its heroic dead this monument has been erected by Major General Daniel Butterfield, U.S.V., its commander on this field December 13th 1862.
Organized July…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF6_little-falls_Fredericksburg-VA.html
On 11 December 1862, Union engineers began the construction of pontoon bridges here so the army could cross the Rappahannock River to Fredericksburg. They began in the morning, hidden by fog. Soon the fog lifted, however, and Confederate sharpshoo…