Spotsylvania Memory

Photo enhancement courtesy of Tom Myers      For students of the battle of the Wilderness, the words "the Widow Tapp farm...

William Lee Kent      When William Lee "Willie" Kent was born, his father was far away, fighting with the Confederate army. H...

Sam Ford won the fox horn blowing contest at the 1952 Dog Mart (Free Lance-Star)      By the time he was ten years old, he was no lon...

Middleton Chambers      Born into the most inauspicious of circumstances, his life thereafter was one of great promise. His talent le...

Benjamin Bowering letter to Lizzie Houston Row, 10 June 1884      The roster of names of Fredericksburg's leading citizens, who str...

Jehu Williams      In about 1720 young David Shion Williams, born in Wales in 1699, boarded one of the many sailing ships plying the At...