CHAPTER IV Encouraging Home Industries--Further Extension of the Town--Tobacco Inspectors Appointed--Modes of Punishing Criminals--Prosperity--Military Ardor--Under the United States Government--A New Order of Things, 46 CHAPTER V Lease of the Market-House Lots--The First Serious Fire-- Fredericksburg an Important Center--An Act Concerning Elections--Half of the Town Destroyed by Fire-- Fredericksburg an Important Postal Point--How the Mails were Carried--A Congressional Investigation--Amendatory Acts of 1821--The Great Fire of 1822--The Trade of the Town--Contagious Diseases--The Town in 1841--Acts of Extension, 1851, 1852, 1858, 1861, 57 CHAPTER VI The War Clouds Gather--Fredericksburg in the Southern Confederacy--Troops Raised and Equipped--Town Surrendered to Federal Authorities--Citizens Arrested and Held as Hostages--Thrilling Evacuating Scenes--Citizens Flee from their Homes--Bombardment of the Town, 71 CHAPTER VII The Great Battle--The Town Sacked by Soldiers--The Federals Recross the River--A Great Revival of Religion--The Battle of Chancellorsville--Gen. Sedgwick Captures the Town--The Wilderness Campaign--Many Noncombatant Citizens Arrested and Imprisoned--A Statement by the Council--The Citizens and Federal Soldiers Released, 90 CHAPTER VIII The Armies Transferred to Richmond and Petersburg--Gen. Lee Surrenders his Army--Citizens Return Home--Action of the City Council--Fredericksburg Again Under the Old Flag--The Assassination of President Lincoln Denounced-- Reconstruction Commenced--An Election Set Aside by the Military--All Civil Offices Set Aside and Strangers Appointed--The Financial Condition of the Town--The Town Again in the Hands of its Citizens--Splendid Financial Showing, 107 CHAPTER IX The Courts of Fredericksburg--The Freedman's Bureau--Court Orders and Incidents--First Night Watch Appointed-- Ministers Qualify to Perform Marriage Ceremony--First Notary Public--Fixing the Value of Bank Notes--Prison Bounds for Debtors--Church Buildings, 123 CHAPTER X Public Buildings--Court House--The Jail--Town Hall--Fire Department--School Buildings--Wallace Library--Normal School--Government Building, 136 CHAPTER XI Ancient and Historical Buildings--Mary Washington Monument--General Mercer's Statue--Mary Washington's Will, 148