A Trip to Fredericksburg

A friend and I headed down to Fredericksburg on Saturday. It was a bright, warm sunny day. Our plan was to tour some of the battlefield, have lunch in town and head back to DC. We ended up stumbling onto something very interesting. The Brompton House and gorunds which is normally closed to the public was open on Saturday. Not only that there were park rangers to give talks about the house. There were:

... featured talks on the Battle of Marye's Heights, the use of the historic home as a hospital for Union troops and war damage done there, visitors said they came away with a whole new appreciation for history.

Like I said we just stumble on to this. Well actually, a park ranger asked, when we started the Sunken Road walking tour, if we were here for the Brompton tour we said no. He then told us about the tour and how Brompton House was normally closed to the public. We quickly got instructions on where to go for the tour.























This was one of the park rangers. He talked about how the grounds of the house was used as a hospital.























Above is the map of the Sunken Road Walking Trail. Below shows part of the stone wall part of the Confederate position during the battle.