Some Interesting Facts
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The first resolution declaring American Independence was passed in Fredericksburg, April 27th, 1775, twenty-one days before the next earlier.
Seven presidents and three of the greatest military leaders was born at Fredericksburg or within a short distance.
It was John Paul Jones, a Fredericksburg man, who raised the first flag over our infant navy, in 1775.
At Fredericksburg and within fifteen miles, more great armies manœuvered, more great battles were fought, more men were engaged in mortal combat and more officers and privates were killed and wounded than in any similar territory in the world.
The tallest and most imposing monument erected to a woman is erected at Fredericksburg to the memory of Mary Washington.
James Monroe, for many years a citizen of Fredericksburg, announced the American principal known as the Monroe Doctrine.
James Madison, born near Fredericksburg, gave to the country the Constitution of the United States.
It was Fredericksburg that gave to the country the head of the Armies in the Great War for Independence and the first president, in the person of the peerless Washington.
Close Driving Distance
Sedgwick Monument 12 miles
“Stonewall” Jackson Monument 11 "
Massachusetts Monument 10 "
Hays Monument 10 "
Spotsylvania C. H. 12 "
Salem Church 3 "
Chancellorsville 10 "
Wilderness 15 "
Bloody Angle 12 "
Hamilton’s Crossing 4 "
Falmouth 1 mile
Lacy House (Burnside Headquarters) ½ "
Phillips House (Sumner’s Headquarters) 1 "
Losses on the Six Battlefields
FREDERICKSBURG-HAMILTON’S CROSSING
Fed. Con. Total
Fred’sburg, Dec. 13, ’62, May 3-4 ’63 } 12,653 5,377 18,030
Hamilton s Crossing, Dec. 13, 1862
CHANCELLORSVILLE-SALEM CHURCH
Chancellorsville, May 1-3, 1863 } 17,287 12,463 29,750
Salem Church, May 3-4, 1863
WILDERNESS
Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864 17,666 10,641 28,307
SPOTSYLVANIA
Spotsylvania, May 8-21, 1864 15,577 11,578 27,155
Total 63,183 40,059 103,242
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FREDERICKSBURG AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST
Footnotes:
[1] See Quinn’s History of Fredericksburg.