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Come Join the
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust in Celebrating our Past Successes
and Looking Towards our Future
As a Special Treat
the Event Will be Held at Willis Hill, on the Fredericksburg
Battlefield, Overlooking the Sunken Road
The Central
Virginia Battlefields Trust helped the National Park Service to
acquire a key portion of
Marye's Heights
in 1996. This is where it all started for CVBT
As always there will be interesting
speeches and tours.
Of course our famous BBQ dinner can't be missed!
Special "Stonewall" Jackson Artifacts will be on display courtesy of the
Museum of the Confederacy! Some never before displayed to the
public!
Location
National
Parks Service Visitor Center Fredericksburg
1013
Lafayette Blvd. Fredericksburg, VA
Willis Hill
Directions
Schedule of Events
Saturday, May 3rd
Registration from 10:30 am to 11:30 am at Willis Hill
Please note: Upon sign in you will be given two tickets
for use in obtaining evening Cocktails
Saturday’s tour will
be a visit to Moss Neck, on the Rappahannock River. The manor house
dates to the 1850s and during the Civil War was the home of Richard
Corbin, his wife Roberta, and his daughter Janie. Stonewall Jackson
spent exactly three months there during the winter of 1862-1863.
Jackson’s fond regard for Janie is well documented as is her sudden
death after he moved away, in March 1863, to Belvoir. Others of the
Corbin clan in residence that winter were Richard’s sister “Nettie”
Dickenson and her children and another sister Kate, who famously married
Sandie Pendleton, of Jackson’s staff. The property was covered by 2nd
Corps encampments during the entire winter.
Bus tour
to Moss Neck led by NPS Historian Frank O' Reilly departs Visitor
Center , at 11:30am.
The bus will be located at the corner of
Willis and Mercer Streets, one block north of the Visitor Center
Tour
returns to Visitor Center at 4:00pm.
Pictures of Moss Neck Courtesy of Photographer
Alan Zirkle
Special display of
"Stonewall" Jackson artifacts presented by Museum of the Confederacy!
OK,
we will let you in on the items:
Jackson’s
sword from Cedar Mountain, and also his spurs, with a probability of an
extra set never before presented to the public!
5:00 to 6:00 pm Evening Reception (cocktails and
hors d'oeuvres)
Please note: Upon sign in you will be given two
tickets for use in obtaining evening Cocktails
6:00pm our famous BBQ and fixin's dinner
7:00 pm Annual Meeting and Nominations
Sunday May 4th
Sunday’s tour will be
a trip to the site of Belvoir, a plantation approximately one mile
southwest of Hamilton’s Crossing, where Jackson spent March and April of
1863. Built before 1820, but no longer standing, Belvoir was the home
of Thomas Yerby and his family. During the December 13, 1862 battle,
the house and its grounds were occupied by hundreds of wounded men,
including Maxcy Gregg, mortally wounded during Meade’s breakthrough.
Other visitors to the house that spring included Robert E. Lee,
Jackson’s wife Mary Anna Jackson, and Jackson’s infant daughter Julia.
The last photo portrait of Jackson was taken in the house and there he
received word from a courier, on April 29th, that the Union
army had crossed the Rappahannock River. The next time he saw his
family, he too would be wounded, by a Confederate volley at
Chancellorsville.
Location: Parking in
the Free-Lance Star Parking Lot on William Street
9:00 am: Bus departs for Belvoir. Tour led by Eric Mink, NPS Director
of Cultural Resources.
12:00: Return, end of weekend
Click Here for Costs and to Sign up For Event
For more information please call Linda Wandres at
(540)-907-0527
You may also e-mail Linda at
execdirector@cvbt.org
We look forward to seeing you at this special event |
May 3rd and 4th, 2008