Summary: | Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia, circa 1991-2010. Caption reads: "Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Standing today as part of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, this stone wall serves as a grim memorial of the futile Union efforts during the battle for Marye's Heights. The entrenched Confederate forces waiting along the Sunken Road decimated the advancing Union troops and declared a brutal victory. Some 9,600 Union troops died in the ferocious fighting for Fredericksburg." Postcard number: VA143, 07143. |
Creator: | Blackley, Chuck |
Blackley, Pat |
Provider: | Traub Company |
Century: | 2001-2100 |
1901-2000 |
Printing place: | North America |
Canada |
Temporal subject: |
1991-2000
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2001-2010
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Geographical subject – Continent: | North America |
Geographical subject – Country: | United States of America |
Geographical subject – Region: | Virginia |
Geographical subject – Settlement: | Fredericksburg |
Geographical subject – District: | Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park |
Topical subjects: | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
Battlefields |
Stone walls |
Genre: | Postcards |
ArchivesUM location: | Institute of American Deltiology Postcard Collection
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Repository: | National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection |
Browse terms: | Architecture, Landscape, Historic Places |
Copyright holder: | Unknown |
Collection: | National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection |
Collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the University of Maryland Libraries at http://www.lib.umd.edu/NTL/queries.html. |