| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Fredericksburg — Stuart and Pelham |
| | Battle of Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862 ——— — Map (db m3918) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Fredericksburg — The Battle of Fredericksburg |
| | This landscape, now changed by commercial and residential development, once swarmed with Union soldiers. Forty thousand Northern troops, led by General William B. Franklin, having crossed the Rappahannock River, massed here on the plain south of Fredericksburg. A like number of soldiers, led by General Edwin V. Sumner, occupied the town itself. Franklin and Sumner had the same objective: drive the Confederate army from its stronghold on the heights west of the river. Franklin would attack the . . . — Map (db m3825) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Fredericksburg — N 31 — The Gallant Pelham |
| | Here Major John Pelham, commanding Stuart’s Horse Artillery, executed a stunning flank attack on advancing Union troops during the Battle of Fredericksburg on 13 December 1862. Reduced to one cannon, the 24-year-old Pelham halted the Federals for almost two hours by employing the flying artillery tactics that he had perfected. Observing from a nearby hilltop, Lee exclaimed, “It is glorious to see such courage in one so young! Lee’s battle report commended “the gallant Pelham.” . . . — Map (db m1656) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Fredericksburg — The Gallant Pelham |
| | The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia had no braver officer than Major John Pelham. Although just 24 years old, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Alabamian had already proven himself on more than half a dozen battlefields in Maryland and Virginia. Pelham commanded General J.E.B. Stuart’s horse artillery. On December 13, 1862, as Union troops deployed on the plain south of Fredericksburg, Pelham received permission from Stuart to bring a single cannon to this intersection. From here, he fired . . . — Map (db m3821) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Fredericksburg — Fredericksburg Campaign |
| | December 13, 1862. This highway, the Old Richmond Stage Road, here passes wartime Smithfield, now the Fredericksburg Country Club. Out of the ravine alongside the present golf links (your left front), Meade’s Division emerged to form lines of battle and advance against the Confederate heights, a mile in front of this marker. The banners of Doubleday’s Division flew on his left and Gibbon’s on his right. Though Meade temporarily pierced the enemy defenses, all three divisions were forced back to this road by Confederate counterattack. — Map (db m5522) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Fredericksburg — Confederate Earthworks — The Battle of Fredericksburg |
| | Twisting through the woods one hundred yards ahead of you are two well-preserved lines of earthworks constructed by Confederate forces in the winter of 1862-1863. General Robert E. Lee had ordered his troops to build the trenches in anticipation of a Union Crossing of the Rappahannock River the following spring. When first built, the works stood two and one-half feet high with a ditch of like depth in the rear, allowing soldiers to stand without exposing themselves to enemy fire.
On the . . . — Map (db m19313) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Fredericksburg — The Gallant Pelham — The Battle of Fredericksburg |
| | Young, handsome, and modest, Major John Pelham was one of the most popular men in the Confederate army. He was also one of its premier artillerists. Time and again the twenty-four-year-old officer had engaged the enemy at close quarters, earning the praise of his superiors and the respect of his peers.
Pelham gained his greatest fame at Fredericksburg. On December 13, 1862, he single-handedly took on the Union army, delaying its advance by almost an hour. Although finally forced back to . . . — Map (db m19314) |
| Virginia (Spotsylvania County), Fredericksburg — The Winter Line — The Battle of Fredericksburg |
| | The months following the Battle of Fredericksburg brought a temporary halt to the fighting in Virginia, but not to the digging. Throughout the winter of 1862-1863 Confederate troops constructed nearly thirty miles of earthworks along the south bank of the Rappahannock River. The works stretched from United States Ford, in the north, to Port Royal, in the south.
Unwilling to attack Lee’s strong defenses, Union commander Joseph Hooker devised a plan to maneuver the Confederates out of their . . . — Map (db m19315) |
| Virginia (Caroline County), Fredericksburg — N 11 — Jackson's Headquarters |
| | In an outhouse here at Moss Neck, Stonewall Jackson had his headquarters, December, 1862-March, 1863. He was engaged in guarding the line of the Rappahannock with his corps of Lee's army. — Map (db m19286) |
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