Fredericksburg Campaign

On December 13, 1862, about 100 yards south of this spot, Georgia’s Gen. T.R.R. Cobb was mortally wounded within sight of his mother’s girlhood home. He died at the roadside dwelling of Mrs. Martha Stevens, who remained throughout the battle to aid Confederate wounded. Although her modest frame house withstood shot and shell, it has not survived to the present. Nearby, Sgt. Richard Kirkland, a young South Carolinian, earned the nickname “Angel of Marye’s Heights” by risking his life to carry water to wounded Federals in front of the wall.

Fredericksburg, Virginia · United States