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Sirs: . . . Fredericksburg residents are against the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill as we have not Civil forgotten War'' that and we the were the Carpetbag "Cockpit of Reconstruction that followed...
Curator The National Battlefield Museum Fredericksburg...
...prominent citizen, headed the forces opposed to the Vigilantes, met and disliked William Tecumseh ("War is Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar was wounded four times, saw noteworthy action at Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and elsewhere, was once deprived of his command because, he said, of the enmity of General Benjamin Butler...
...Fredericksburg, Va., is the place where George Washington is supposed to have tossed a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River. On a drizzly day last week, 7,000 people and 642 dogs from Washington, Richmond, and the surrounding countryside gathered under the 400-year-old oak trees in Fredericksburg's city park for the 239th renewal of Fredericksburg's famed dog mart. According to tradition it; was founded to pacify warring Indians who had no need of the usual peace offerings of beads, muskets or rum, but who coveted the colonists' fine dogs. It has evolved into...
Brose was a dangerous character, a fighting fool. With the "Bloody First" he got plenty of danger and many a fight: Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg. At Gettysburg Brose was in the charge that reached the highwater mark of the Confederacy inside the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge, led a handful of survivors safely back. Long before Appomattox he knew there was no hope left, but like many a butternut veteran was willing to go on. Mildred could hardly recognize as her fire-eating lover the tattered scarecrow that came limping into smoke-blackened...