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The large pyramid became known as the Meade Pyramid, but it was erected not as a Union monument but by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society. In 1897, the society asked Virginia railroad executives to place markers at historically significant sites along their lines, and the president of the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad responded by constructing a stone pyramid modeled after the memorial to the unknown Confederate dead in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. It marks the point where General George G. Meade's Union division penetrated the boggy gap in "Stonewall" Jackson's lines on December 13, 1862.
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