It was Fredericksburg that gave to the country the head of the Armies in the Great War for Independence and the first president, in the person of the peerless Washington.
Close Driving Distance
| Sedgwick Monument | 12 | miles | |
| “Stonewall” Jackson Monument | 11 | " | |
| Massachusetts Monument | 10 | " | |
| Hays Monument | 10 | " | |
| Spotsylvania C. H. | 12 | " | |
| Salem Church | 3 | " | |
| Chancellorsville | 10 | " | |
| Wilderness | 15 | " | |
| Bloody Angle | 12 | " | |
| Hamilton’s Crossing | 4 | " | |
| Falmouth | 1 | mile | |
| Lacy House (Burnside Headquarters) | ½ | " | |
| Phillips House (Sumner’s Headquarters) | 1 | " |
Losses on the Six Battlefields
| FREDERICKSBURG-HAMILTON’S CROSSING | ||||||||
| Fed. | Con. | Total | ||||||
| Fred’sburg, Dec. 13, ’62, May 3-4 ’63 | } | 12,653 | 5,377 | 18,030 | ||||
| Hamilton s Crossing, Dec. 13, 1862 | ||||||||
| CHANCELLORSVILLE-SALEM CHURCH | ||||||||
| Chancellorsville, May 1-3, 1863 | } | 17,287 | 12,463 | 29,750 | ||||
| Salem Church, May 3-4, 1863 | ||||||||
| WILDERNESS | ||||||||
| Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864 | 17,666 | 10,641 | 28,307 | |||||
| SPOTSYLVANIA | ||||||||
| Spotsylvania, May 8-21, 1864 | 15,577 | 11,578 | 27,155 | |||||
| Total | 63,183 | 40,059 | 103,242 | |||||
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FREDERICKSBURG AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST