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FREDERICKSBURG CAMPAIGN
December 13, 1862. The Washington Artillery of New Orleans was
posted around the Marye House here on Marye's Heights. Col. J. B. Walton,
the commanding officer, had his headquarteers in the house. This unit and
Alexander's Reserve Battalion, which relieved it during the afternoon,
helped hurl back seven Federal charges. On May 3, 1863, Sedgwick's
Federal VI Corps, attempting to join Hooker at Chancellorsville,
successfully stormed these heights, only to be defeated at Salem Church,
four miles west. During the Wilderness and Spotsylvania operations of
May 1864, the Marye House served as a Federal hospital and the wounded
lay outside under the trees, one of which, the large oak between you
and the house, still stands.
Erected 1958.
United States Department of the Interior National
Park Service
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