A Great Battle: Commencement of the Struggle at Fredericksburgh – 2-5
Postscript – A Great Battle: Details Up to Eleven O’Clock Last Night – 6
News from Washington: Our Special Dispatches – 6-7
Order Respecting the Waste of Ammunition – 8
Stonewall Jackson Not a Poet – 8
Honors to Heroes – 8
Editorial: The Army of Gen. Burnside – The Plans on Richmond – 8-9
Editorial: The Proclamation and the Slaves – 9
Concentration – 9
In the 1970s my husband served with a member of a prominent family of Fredericksburg.
While stationed at the Pentagon, his entire unit and their families were invited to the estate, Fall Hill, for everyone to gather firewood.
This activity also helped maintain the acreage for the elderly mother.
The property bordered on the Rappahannock river and as I recall, was used as a command post during the Civil War.
Our hostess served us Rappahannock oyster stew in the main house in front of a roaring fire.
She told us some of the history of the place while dressed in an authentic period costume.
One thing I remember she told us was that the family was afraid that the Union would burn the house so they moved all of the fine furniture to Spotsylvania,
but the Union burnt the Spotsylvania house instead so the furniture was lost.
After the work in the woods was done, we shot skeet off of the back terrace.