BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Fredericksburg Natl Battlefield -- Visitor's Center

VA -- Fredericksburg Natl Battlefield -- Visitor's Center:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FREDVC_080301_02.JPG: Visitor Center
2. FREDVC_080301_10.JPG: Lay of the Land illustration showing you how the attack was played out and where.
3. FREDVC_080323_05.JPG: Endangered Landscape: This photograph, taken in 1999, shows the landscape portrayed in the painting on your left. As you can see, not much has changed. The ground over which Collis's Zouaves charged still appears much as it did in 1862. Is is the only place on the Fredericksburg Battlefield that can make that claim. Other battlefield landscapes, like those at Marye's Heights and the Sunken Road, have been destroyed or heavily affected by development. Most of the ground shown in the painting is privately owned, outside the National Park Service boundary.
4. FREDVC_080323_10.JPG: "The Battle of Fredericksburg" Carl Rochling (1855-1920): Colonel Charles H.T. Collis, commander of the 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers, commissioned this vivid depiction of the Battle of Fredericksburg. The painting captures a dramatic moment during the Union assault at Prospect Hill. As "Stonewall" Jackson's Confederates surge out of the distant woods threatening Union artillery, General John C. Robinson's Union brigade rushes forward to protect the guns. In the counterattack, Robinson's horse is killed, pinning the brigade leader to the ground. When Robinson falls, Collis's colorful Pennsylvania Zouaves momentarily falter. Galloping to the front, Colonel Collis seizes the regimental flag and rallies his men with an order to charge. His action saved the guns and earned him the Medal of Honor.
5. FREDVC_080323_12.JPG: Fredericksburg After the Battle
6. FREDVC_080323_31.JPG: Fredericksburg After the Battle: "... I went into Fredericksburg and the sight is woeful... Every fence is broken down, the doors and windows of the houses broken up and much furniture pulled out into the streets and badly used up and scattered. Some twenty-five houses have been burned and almost every house shows the mark of having been struck by some kind of missile, most of them shell and solid shot." -- Charles M. Blackford, Captain, 2nd Virginia Cavalry You are looking east down Hanover Street. Confederates patrol the recaptured town. Today St. George's Episcopal Church, right background, still stands. So does the white house at the far right, the girlhood home of Confederate General Thomas R. R. Cobb's mother. Cobb was killed in the Sunken Road.
7. FREDVC_080323_40.JPG: The diorama on the right is based on this wartime photograph of Hanover Street.
8. FREDVC_080323_43.JPG: Storming Marye's Heights: The Irish Brigade made its most celebrated attack of the war at Fredericksburg. Carrying a green flag of Ireland and wearing sprigs of boxwood in their caps to remind them of their Gaelic heritage, the 1,200 men of the brigade charged across the shell-swept plain toward Marye's Heights. In less than 30 minutes, 545 of them lay dead or wounded in the cold winter mud.
9. FREDVC_080323_50.JPG: Drum of the 28th Massachusetts: Drums played an important role in Civil War battles. In situations where the din of combat drowned out human voices, drums were a simple and effective way to communicate orders instantaneously over a wide area. This drum belonged to the 28th Massachusetts Volunteers, one of five regiments of the Irish Brigade. It may have been used here at Fredericksburg.
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