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National parks, monuments, natural reserves, historic sites of Virginia. Pages with photos are indicated with (pictures).
Appalachian
Lake Superior
Appomattox Court House (pictures)
Appomattox
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial (pictures)
Arlington
Blue Ridge way (pictures)
Blue Ridge Mountains
Booker T Washington (pictures)
Hardy
Cape Henry Memorial
Fort Story
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove
Middletown, Strasburg
Claude Moore Colonial Farm
McLean
Colonial (pictures)
Jamestown and Yorktown
Fredericksburg (pictures)
Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military
Fredericksburg
George Washington Birthplace (pictures)
Westmoreland County
Great Falls (pictures)
McLean
Green Springs
Louisa County
Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac
Arlington
Maggie L Walker
Richmond
Manassas (pictures)
Manassas
Petersburg (pictures)
Petersburg
Poplar Grove
Petersburg
Prince William Forest (pictures)
Triangle
Richmond
Richmond
Shenandoah (pictures)
Luray
Theodore Roosevelt Island
McLean
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Fredericksburg National Cemetery pictures
Fredericksburg, VA
In July 1865, three months after the restoration of peace between the states, Congress authorized the establishment of a National Cemetery in Fredericksburg to honor the Federal soldiers who died on the battlefields or from disease in camp. The site chosen was on Marye's Heights, the formidable Confederate position which had proven so impregnable to repeated Federal attacks on December 13, 1862.
A soldier who fought with the 14th Indiana in the recent war returned to Fredericksburg as a member of a veteran corps assigned the task of locating and identifying the dead. He made these observations in a letter: "Your correspondent roamed all over the battle field of December 13, 1862. No headboards or monuments mark the spot where the gallant defenders of the old flag fell on that ever-memorable day. The great 'slaughter pen' of Gen. A. E. Burnside is most all under cultivation, enriched with the blood of as brave men as ever answered their country's call."
Fredericksburg National Cemetery Pictures (NPS)
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