Fredericksburg Campaign - Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Don.Morfe
N 38° 17.578 W 077° 28.115
18S E 284114 N 4241204
December 13, 1862. On this ridge, called Marye's Heights, blazed the cannon of Col. J.B. Walton's Louisiana battalion, the Washington Artillery.
Waymark Code: WM133XR
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/10/2020
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Fredericksburg Campaign-Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park--December 13, 1862. On this ridge, called Marye's Heights, blazed the cannon of Col. J.B. Walton's Louisiana battalion, the Washington Artillery. Late in the day, out of ammunition, it yielded the post to Col. E.P. Alexander's Reserve Artillery. Gen. Robert Ransom's North Carolina infantrymen supported the guns and reinforced Cobb's Georgians and Kershaw's South Carolinians in the Sunken Road below. The open field of attack was raked "as with a fine-tooth comb," Alexander assured corps commander James Longstreet, "A chicken could not live on that field."
LOCATION: Sunken Road Located in the Fredericksburg National Cemetery.
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