Yesterday, we visited the battlefield of Fredericksburg. After the war, most of it was sold and houses were built, as well as an asphalt road. However, some of it is now part of the National Park Service, The Sunken Road.
The battle brought face to face General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Burnside. It started December 11,1862. After two days of fighting, the Confederacy troops defeated their enemies . No Union soldiers touched the wall or made it into the road.
There were heavy casualties on the Union attackers. The wounded made their way to the field hospital while those who were disabled were forced to remain on the battlefield. Richard Rowland Kirkland, a soldier from the Confederacy, when hearing the moaning of the ones remaining in the battlefield, gathered all the canteens he could carry, filled them with water and then went back to the battlefield. No one fired a shot. He helped either Union and Confederate soldiers.
There were heavy casualties on the Union attackers. The wounded made their way to the field hospital while those who were disabled were forced to remain on the battlefield. Richard Rowland Kirkland, a soldier from the Confederacy, when hearing the moaning of the ones remaining in the battlefield, gathered all the canteens he could carry, filled them with water and then went back to the battlefield. No one fired a shot. He helped either Union and Confederate soldiers.
The courage of this soldier and his compasion and generosity towards the members of the other army, made him get the name of the Angel of Marye’s Heights.
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