Fredericksburg Battlefield

Marye's Heights and the Sunken Road at its base were key points in two major Civil War battles at Fredericksburg. In December 1862, Confederate troops standing in the Sunken Road behind a stone wall repelled repeated Union assaults. Five months later, during the Chancellorsville Campaign, Union troops again attacked Marye's Heights and this time succeeded in taking it. Lee Drive, Chatham, and the nearby battlefields of Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House are also part of the historic landscape connected with Fredericksburg.

Fredericksburg, Virginia · United States