Call it “Building X.”
What remains of it lay, buried and long forgotten until now, beside today’s Fredericksburg City Hall where a new courthouse will soon rise.
Now, thanks to intense scrutiny by archaeologists and local researchers in recent weeks, you can add this once-substantial row house to the casualties of the Battle of Fredericksburg.
The Civil War’s most lopsided Confederate victory, won 150 years ago this December, not only killed or wounded nearly 18,000 men, it erased the brick structure from the town’s landscape.
Excellent long and well informed piece on the excavations in
house destroyed in Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
hiding in a cellar, while battle raged… now read on!!
Read on here: news.fredericksburg.com
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