Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) HISTORIC FREDERICKSBURG [Illustration: FREDERICKSBURG FROM STAFFORD _Showing the Steeple that was Used as a Signal Station by Both Armies_] [Illustration: ON THE WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD _President Harding, John T. Goolrick and Gen. Smedley D. Butler_] HISTORIC FREDERICKSBURG _The Story of an Old Town_ _By_ JOHN T. GOOLRICK AUTHOR OF _"The Life of General Hugh Mercer" "Irishmen in the Civil War" Etc._ _Printed In U.S.A._ by WHITTET & SHEPPERSON RICHMOND VA. _Photographs By_ DAVIS GALLERY, FREDERICKSBURG VA. COPYRIGHT, 1922 JOHN T. GOOLRICK This Book is Dedicated To one who has not failed her friends, or her duty. Who has given freely of her best. Whose faith has not faltered, nor courage dimmed. Who has held high her ideals; who has lighted a pathway for those she loves. To My Wife _Contents_ IN THE OLDER DAYS 13 _One by one the little cabins are built along the river bank_ AFTER THE REVOLUTION 26 _In the days of its glory, the Old Town was famed and prosperous_ WAR'S WORST HORRORS 37 _Shelled by 181 guns for hours, the town becomes a crumbled ruin_ THE FIRST BATTLE 48 _When, at Marye's Heights and Hamilton's Crossing, war claimed her sacrifice_ AT CHANCELLORSVILLE 55 _The Struggle in the Pine Woods when death struck at Southern hearts_ TWO GREAT BATTLES 64 _The fearful fire swept Wilderness, and the Bloody Angle at Spottsylvania_ HEROES OF EARLY DAYS 70 _The Old Town gives the first Commander, first Admiral and Great Citizens_ MEN OF MODERN TIMES 98 _Soldiers, Adventurers and Sailors, Heroes and Artists, mingle here_ UNFORGOTTEN WOMEN 123 _Some of Many Who Left a Record of Brilliancy, Service or Sacrifice_ AT THE RISING SUN 133 _Where Famous Men Met; and Mine Host Brewed Punch and Sedition_ LAFAYETTE COMES BACK 139 _After Forty Years of Failure, He Hears the Echo of His Youthful Triumph_ OLD COURT RECORD 142 _Staid Documents, Writ by Hands That Are Still, Are History For Us_ ECHOES OF THE PAST 151 _"Ghosts of Dead Hours, and Days That Once Were Fair"_