Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park

Abner Doubleday

Alexander Swift “Sandie” Pendleton

Ambrose E Burnside

Annie Etheridge

Cadmus Wilcox

Claus ("Carl") Wriborg

Cornelia Hancock

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

Future Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited several American sites with his brother in 1929, including New York City, Virginia battlefields, Gettysburg Battlefield, and Washington DC. This article describes Imperial War Museum's video of the sites the party visited at Fredericksburg area battlefields.

In 2020, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park had the 2nd warmest year and 5th wettest year ever recorded (since 1895).

In 2021, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park experienced a very warm (i.e. 6th warmest on record) and moderately dry year.

View recipients of the National Park Service Freeman Tilden Awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to the practice of interpretation and education by NPS employees.

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park experienced a very warm 2022 but precipitation was essentially normal.

The year 2023 was the 2nd warmest ever recorded (since 1895) for Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. It was also a very dry year and ended as the 19th driest on record.

On November 17, 1862, the vanguard of the Army of the Potomac arrived in Falmouth, just up the river from Fredericksburg. Over the past two days, the United States soldiers had marched nearly forty miles. As the soldiers halted across from Fredericksburg, the question remained: now what?

No president up to that point in American history was called on to be commander-in-chief like Abraham Lincoln. From monitoring the War Department telegraph office to selecting of commanding generals and developing military strategy, Lincoln guided the nation through its darkest hour.