Taken in 1864, an image looking south along Willis Hill, part of Marye's Heights, from near this spot shows some of the overgrown earthworks built by the Confederates in 1862 and 1863. Behind them stand the ruins of three brick buildings largely destroyed by Union artillery and infantry fire during the two battles of Fredericksburg. The site of the National Cemetery lies beyond the most distant chimney. Lieutenant William Miller Owen of the Washington Artillery of New Orleans recalled that the little whitewashed brick house to the right of the redoubt was so battered with bullets during the engagement that by the close it had been transformed to a bright brick-rust red, and that an old cast-iron stove against the house rang out "Bing! Bing!" in different tones and variations as bullets struck it. The little whitewashed brick house is also clearly visible in the background of a 1863 photo of Confederates on the railroad bridge in Fredericksburg. In May 1864, wagons and tents there belonged to the Union army as part of the vast effort to care for more than 20,000 wounded from the battles at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House.