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Photographer: Craig Swain
Caption: Fredericksburg Map Painting
Additional Description: Located between the Visitor Center and Bookstore is this painted map indicating important events in the Fredericksburg Campaign. Since the narrative is difficult to read from a photograph, the key points are superimposed here by red numbers and letters:

(1). November 19, 1862 Burnside's Union Army arrives opposite Fredericksburg.

(2). December 11, Federal pontoon bridges are resisted by Confederate riflemen along the river bank.

(3). Shortly before the attacks on this end of the battlefield began, a Union assault against Stonewall Jackson's line (off this map to the south) was beaten back after a brief success.

(4). December 13. The main Union attacks against Marye's Heights are easily and bloodily repulsed.

(A). Phillips House. Burnsides headquarters. Burned after the battle.

(B). Washington's Boyhood Home.

(C). Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad.

(D). "You are here."
Submitted: December 15, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p46760
File Size: 0.350 Megabytes

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