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|   Fredericksburg Campaign - Fredericksburg, Virginia
in U.S. Civil War Sites December 13, 1862. The Washington Artillery of New Orleans was posted around the Marye House here on Marye's Heights. Col. J. B. Walton, the commanding officer, had his headquarters in the house. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/10/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallerySW84.3 km | Sunken Road-Battle of Fredericksburg- Fredericksburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites This photograph was taken shortly after the Confederates in the foreground were killed on May 3, 1863. This graphic depiction of the human debris of battle is one of the most revealing post-battle photos from the Civil War years. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/10/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallerySW84.3 km | Innis House - Fredericksburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites A small frame home was caught in the line of fire during the Battle of Fredericksburg and bears the scars 150 years later. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 07/24/2011 last visited: 07/01/2022 |
 view gallerySW84.3 km | Stephens House - Fredericksburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Martha Stephens' house was caught in the crossfire during the Battle of Fredericksburg, but she refused to leave and administered aid to the fallen. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 07/24/2011 last visited: 07/01/2022 |
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| 1862 Antietam Campaign Lee Invades Maryland - Shepherdstown WV in U.S. Civil War Sites On September 17, 1862 at the battle of Antietam, the two armies clashed in the bloodiest single day in American history and suffered some 23,000 casualties. Lee soon retreated across the Potomac, ending his first invasion of the north. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 05/05/2023 last visited: 05/06/2023 |
 view gallerySW84.5 km | Fredericksburg Battlefield - Fredericksburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Before you looms Marye's Heights, a key point in the two major Civil War battles. At the base of the heights, bordered by a stone wall, lies the Sunken Road. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view gallerySW84.5 km | Fredericksburg Campaign - Fredericksburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites With Richmond as his objective, Gen. Ambrose Burnside started the Federal Army of the Potomac from Warrenton on November 15, 1862. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/10/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryNW84.5 km | D.R. Miller Farm - Sharpsburg, MD in U.S. Civil War Sites This house is the only remaining structure on the property which existed during the battle of Antietam. It served as a field hospital for both sides after the battle. During the battle, the land around the farm was littered with dead soldiers. posted by: Math Teacher location: Maryland date approved: 01/15/2012 last visited: 11/02/2021 |
 view gallerySW84.7 km | Fredericksburg Campaign - Fredericksburg, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites December 13, 1862. On this ridge, called Marye's Heights, blazed the cannon of Col. J.B. Walton's Louisiana battalion, the Washington Artillery. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/10/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view galleryNW84.8 km | Joseph Poffenberger Farmstead - Sharpsburg, MD in U.S. Civil War Sites The Poffenberger farmstead was a major player during the Battle of Antietam. Union troops bivouacked there the night before the battle & again the next day to treat the wounded. According to the NPS, the log farmhouse was built circa 1770. posted by: Math Teacher location: Maryland date approved: 02/11/2012 last visited: 11/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW84.8 km | Fountain Rock - Shepherdstown WV in U.S. Civil War Sites On July 19, 1864, Capt. Franklin Martindale and a detachment of the 1st New York Cavalry rode from Harpers Ferry to this spot. Martindale had come to burn Fountain Rock, a beautiful native limestone house built in 1834 for Dr. Henry Boteler. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 05/05/2023 last visited: 05/06/2023 |
 view gallerySW85.3 km | Kelly's Ford - Culpeper County VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The first significant cavalry battle of the Civil War took place when Union troops crossed the Rappahannock River at Kelly's Ford. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 12/31/2011 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW85.6 km | Lee's Hill - Fredericksburg, VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Site of Robert E. Lee's Command Post during the Battle of Fredericksburg posted by:  stinger503 location: Virginia date approved: 07/19/2017 last visited: 05/24/2019 |
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| Senator George Vickers-Helped Acquit President Andrew Johnson - Chestertown MD in U.S. Civil War Sites Senator George Vickers became a U.S. Senator in March 1868. In May 1868, he was the nineteenth man to vote “not guilty” in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/26/2023 last visited: 03/26/2023 |
 view gallerySW87.1 km | Pelham's Corner - Fredericksburg VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Although greatly outnumbered, the Gallant Pelham delayed thousands of Union soldiers from attacking the Jackson Corps at the Battle of Fredericksburg. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 06/12/2012 last visited: never |
 view galleryE87.1 km | White & Black, Blue & Gray-Social Battlefield Split Kent Families - Chestertown MD in U.S. Civil War Sites In June 1917, Judge James A. Pearce commemorated the Civil War soldiers of Kent County by erecting a monument to honor the patriotism and valor of a once divided, but now reunited country. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/26/2023 last visited: 03/26/2023 |
 view galleryE87.2 km | John Leeds Barroll Publisher Accused of Treason and Exiled - Chestertown MD in U.S. Civil War Sites Federal officials deemed treasonous an 1863 article reprinted in Barroll’s newspaper from the St. Mary’s Beacon, of Leonardtown, Md. Gen. Robert C. Schenck ordered a company to Chestertown, and Barroll was arrested on April 17, 1863. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 03/26/2023 last visited: 03/26/2023 |
 view gallerySW87.5 km | Battle of Salem Church - Waverly Village VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Battle of Salem Church of May 3, 4, 1863 fought by Lee and Hooker concluded the Chancellorsville Campaign here. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view gallerySW87.5 km | The Battle of Salem Church-Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park - Waverly Village VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The climax of the fighting swirled around Salem Church itself. Here Sedgwick’s Federals, swarming up the ridge toward you, broke through the Southern line. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view gallerySW87.5 km | From Church to Hospital-The Battle of Salem Church - Waverly Village VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Two days of fighting around Salem Church left about 4,000 men killed or wounded. As soon as the battle ended, Confederate surgeons turned the building into a field hospital. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view gallerySW87.5 km | Refuge from Horror-Salem Church - Waverly Village VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The arrival of contending armies in December 1862 forced thousands of residents to leave Fredericksburg. Most fled into the countryside, bound for homes or churches in Spotsylvania County. Several hundred ended up here at Salem Church. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view gallerySW87.5 km | Salem Church-The Battle of Salem Church - Waverly Village VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Spotsylvania Baptists built this church in 1844 and named it Salem, a Biblical word meaning peace. Two decades later, Salem Church was engulfed by war. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view gallerySW87.5 km | Churchyard to Battleground The Battle of Salem Church - Waverly Village VA in U.S. Civil War Sites For the first two days of May 1863, the boom of distant guns rattled the windows of Salem Church. Eight miles to the west, at Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee’s main Confederate army battered a Union army nearly twice its size. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view gallerySW87.5 km | Sanctuaries in Spotsylvania - Waverly Village VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Salem Baptist Church was one of nearly a dozen churches that dotted northern Spotsylvania County on the eve of the Civil War. Zoan, Wilderness, Massaponax, Zion, Christ, Piney Branch. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view gallerySW87.5 km | For All Anguish – For Some Freedom - Waverly Village VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Few communities suffered more in the face of war than did Spotsylvania County. For two years armies traversed, occupied, or fought over this ground. Most residents simply tried to stay out of the way; a few left altogether. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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