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Description: Western view from Fredericksburg down Telegraph Road with Marye's Heights visible in the distant center. Several Union divisions would march down this road during the Battle of Fredericksburg to assault the Confederate positions on the heights unsuccessfully. Eventually, they would retreat back down this road after being decimated.
Title: TelegraphRoadFredericksburg1862
Credit: File from The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Two, Two Years of Grim War. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 86.
Author: Unknown
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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