Category Archives: Battles: Fredericksburg

Legacy of war

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Dick Stanley

        This crutch belonged to Joseph W. Weatherly of the 13th Regiment’s Minutemen of Attala, a private from his 1861 enlistment, according to independent historian Grady Howell, to when one of his legs was amputated after the … Continue reading →

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Visiting a 13th soldier’s Richmond grave

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Dick Stanley

Texan Weldon Nash, Jr., whose ancestor Nimrod Newton Nash wrote so many of the good letters in this digital regimental until he was killed at Gettysburg, recently visited the Richmond grave of Henry T. Nash, another Minute Men private. Henry, … Continue reading →

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The 13th at Old Capitol Prison and Fort Delaware

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Of the sixteen soldiers of the 13th Mississippi who were captured on Marye’s Heights at Fredericksburg on May 3, 1863, fourteen were sent to the Old Capitol Prison in Washington City, according to Jess N. McLean. He lists them as … Continue reading →

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General Barksdale’s report

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Dick Stanley

FREDERICKSBURG, VA., May 15, 1863. MAJOR: When General McLaws moved up the river on the night of April 30, I was temporarily detached from my command, and ordered to report to General Early. My brigade was then at Marye’s Hill, … Continue reading →

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Overrun

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Sunday, May 3, it dawned clear and warm, and the Second Battle of Fredericksburg began. “The battle commenced at daylight,” Gen. Barksdale later reported. “A furious cannonading was opened from the enemy’s batteries in town, and along both banks of … Continue reading →

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Marching and countermarching

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Dick Stanley

“All has been unusually quiet in front of us today,” 17th Mississippi diarist Robert A. Moore recorded on May 1, 1863 on Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg. That changed the next day, Saturday, Moore wrote, with “some skirmishing and cannonading in … Continue reading →

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The eve of great and stirring events

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Gen. McLaws wrote his wife, Emily, a quick letter on the evening of April 29, 1863, about the previous night’s Union crossing of the river below and above Fredericksburg which he expected to become a renewed battle. Below the town … Continue reading →

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Fredericksburg’s sunken road

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Dick Stanley

A portion of the defense line of Marye’s Heights, where Lee’s army fought the first Battle of Fredericksburg in December, 1862, and where Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade would again in May, 1863.

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