We stopped in Fredericksburg on the way home. If you don't know anything about this battle you should read something about it, because it is really interesting. In Fredericksburg and the area surrounding it there were several terrible bloody battles. It is sobering to walk on the Sunken Road and see part of the original wall the Confederates crouched behind and imagine the lines of Union soldiers advancing and being shot down over and over again. I am not a Civil War scholar at all, but I love visiting the battlefields around us and gaining an appreciation for the people who have fought our wars and died for our country. It is so neat to stand where it happened and visualize it. Ennis loves studying about the Civil War and so it was fun to visit some of these places with him. He bought the boys each a National Park Passport book that they can get stamped at all the national parks they visit. They all (Ennis included) had a great time finding the stamp everywhere we went and recording it in their books. Thank you Ennis and Mom!
Ennis in front of the Innes House!
You can still see the bullet holes in this house because it stood there right in the middle of the battle.
This house is Brompton on Marye's Heights where the Confederate Generals planned for the battle. Their artillery lined all the high ground.
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