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The Sunken Road took its name from a roadbed cut into the base of Marye's Heights several feet below the surrounding hill slope, with stone retaining walls on either side holding the banks in place. When the Confederate army arrived here in November 1862, it found a ready-made breastwork behind which to fight. At the time of the battle, the stone wall stretched for more than 500 yards along the eastern (left) side of the road, but after the Civil War large sections were removed, leaving only this one-block remnant of the original wall.
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Fredericksburg, Virginia · United States
