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So I went to the Promise Land for all U.S. Historians and amateurs such as myself. I finally made it to some Virginia Battlefields!
Here is Mayre's Heights, Fredericksburg - an amazing time of year to be there. At the bottom you can see the infamous stone wall.
Marye's Heights
Confederate Artillery, Washington Artillery to be more precise originally from New Orleans. A mix of smoothbore, howitzers, napoleons and rifled parrots.
This is downtown Fredericksburg
This one and the next are the Southern end of Lee's Line at Fredericksburg, commanded none other than Stonewall Jackson himself. The cannon pits or lunettes are still visible as well as Lee's 7 mile line of trenches where the road follows all the way down to the end where Jackson had the Southern anchor. The only gap would be the major intersection in between Fredericksburg National Battlefield Park and Cemetary and the rest of the line with Lee's hilltop command post.
Jacksons artillery, Fredericksburg.
This is the "Lee's Drive" in the park, driving South here headed towards the end of his line to Jacksons section. The whole drive, about 4 or 5 miles still has the visible trenches on the left. You follow the trenches the whole way on the road, its really sweet.
This one and the next are Fredericksburg National Cemetary on top of Marye's Heights. Over 15,000 men are buried here from the Fredericksburg Battle of Dec. 1862 and the Chancellorsville Campaign of May 1862. This particular image shows about 5 terraced slopes of rows of graves, while the rest of the cemetary extended very far off behind me.
Here is a decent shot of the cemetery. The terraced slopes would be to the right while the cemetery here extends some 200 yards off to the right to the back of the park and off in the distance straight another 500 yards. There were so many dead that they buried them 2, 3, 4 and even 5 to a single grave, unmarked. You notice this as small square markers in the ground with a 4-digit plot number and then a single digit 1-6 indicating how many men were buried in that plot all unmarked! It really was something else...
In the visitor center, depicts a great image of the lay of the land and the battlefield at that time.
Plenty more to come!
Here is Mayre's Heights, Fredericksburg - an amazing time of year to be there. At the bottom you can see the infamous stone wall.
Marye's Heights
Confederate Artillery, Washington Artillery to be more precise originally from New Orleans. A mix of smoothbore, howitzers, napoleons and rifled parrots.
This is downtown Fredericksburg
This one and the next are the Southern end of Lee's Line at Fredericksburg, commanded none other than Stonewall Jackson himself. The cannon pits or lunettes are still visible as well as Lee's 7 mile line of trenches where the road follows all the way down to the end where Jackson had the Southern anchor. The only gap would be the major intersection in between Fredericksburg National Battlefield Park and Cemetary and the rest of the line with Lee's hilltop command post.
Jacksons artillery, Fredericksburg.
This is the "Lee's Drive" in the park, driving South here headed towards the end of his line to Jacksons section. The whole drive, about 4 or 5 miles still has the visible trenches on the left. You follow the trenches the whole way on the road, its really sweet.
This one and the next are Fredericksburg National Cemetary on top of Marye's Heights. Over 15,000 men are buried here from the Fredericksburg Battle of Dec. 1862 and the Chancellorsville Campaign of May 1862. This particular image shows about 5 terraced slopes of rows of graves, while the rest of the cemetary extended very far off behind me.
Here is a decent shot of the cemetery. The terraced slopes would be to the right while the cemetery here extends some 200 yards off to the right to the back of the park and off in the distance straight another 500 yards. There were so many dead that they buried them 2, 3, 4 and even 5 to a single grave, unmarked. You notice this as small square markers in the ground with a 4-digit plot number and then a single digit 1-6 indicating how many men were buried in that plot all unmarked! It really was something else...
In the visitor center, depicts a great image of the lay of the land and the battlefield at that time.
Plenty more to come!