Chapter Nine
CHAPTER NINE: Interments Additional Photos Examples of some Fredericksburg’s corrected headstones: * * * Admol L. Jett and his son, Admol G. Jett, share the a common grave. This image shows Admol G. Jett’s headstone inscription. His father’s inscription appears on the other side of the stone. * * * In a […]
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CHAPTER TEN: Special Populations Additional Photos James Crowther is one of just two colonels known to be buried at Fredericksburg. His headstone looks like any other. * * * Moses Humphrey is one of five black Civil War soldiers known to be buried at Fredericksburg National Cemetery. Early records indicate that two unidentified […]
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CHAPTER ELEVEN: Stories Additional Photos Corporal John Warner of the Twelfth New York received a mortal wound at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Friends buried him at the Carpenter farm in Stafford County. One of them later sketched his grave. * * * Second Lieutenant Peter Froeligh had the distinction of serving in two […]
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CHAPTER TWELVE: Memorial Day Commemorations Additional Photos On Memorial Day, 1936, family members placed flowers at the grave of Herman Smith of the Thirty-first New York, a Civil War veteran who had died two years earlier. * * * For years, schoolchildren decorated Fredericksburg’s graves with flags on Memorial Day. In 1934, fourth-grade students […]
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EPILOGUE: Fredericksburg National Cemetery under the National Park Service Additional Photos An aerial view of Fredericksburg National Cemetery as it looked under the National Park Service in the mid-20th century. Note the sparsity of trees compared to earlier years. * * * The National Park Service constructed an interpretive station on the brow […]
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