Richard
Rowland Kirkland Memorial
Fredericksburg Battlefield
Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania National Military Park,
Fredericksburg, Virginia
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A
month after assuming command of the Union Army of the Potomac,
Major General Ambrose Burnside sought to seize Federicksburg,
hoping to position his 122,000 troops for a march on Richmond.
Learning of the plan, General Robert E. Lee stretched the 78,500
troops of his Confederate Army of Northern Virginia along the
hills in and around the community. On December 13, 1862, Union
forces attacked, concentrating their efforts on taking Maryes
Heights. Confederate artillery and four lines of infantry behind
a four-foot-high stone wall mowed down wave after wave of Union
soldiers, none of which made it within 25 yards of their foes.
The memorial by Felix De Weldon depicts 19-year-old Confederate
Sergeant Richard Kirkland as he tended to one of the more than
9,600 wounded Federals.
Text
© 2003 Terry White, Drawing © 2003 Bill Harrah
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