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…we made one more day of it, touring the Fredericksburg Battlefield before hitting the road south.\u00a0 Fredericksburg is where my great-great-great (possibly one more great – I can never remember) grandfather lost his leg, so I was excited that we were staying close enough to visit there.\u00a0 The visitor’s center was being remodeled, so we didn’t get nearly as much information about the battle itself as we normally would, but the lady in the gift shop did look up his name, James McDaniel, on her computer, and could tell me that he was a Corporal in the Calvary, Company C, Georgia State Guard.\u00a0 And Lindee happened to think to ask if her mother-in-law Emma’s great-great-great grandfather fought there.\u00a0 They knew he’d been killed at Petersburg late in the war, but didn’t know much else about where he’d served.\u00a0 And sure enough, there he was.\u00a0 So Mallory & Clara had ancestors on both sides fighting together.\u00a0 Pretty cool.\u00a0 This picture is the Sunken Road that sort of bisected the battlefield, & was pretty much the base for the fighting.\"get-attachment\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Often – well, most of the time, really – anywhere we stopped outside on vacation, Clara would get up close and personal with any bugs or gravel or grass or whatever she could find to entertain herself :-).\u00a0 She was so so so so so good the entire week – just went along with whatever we wanted to do.\"get-attachment\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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As we were at Chancellorsville, we were very interested in the trenches that continued to stand the test of time – over 150 years now.\u00a0 Fredericksburg was fought in December before Stonewall Jackson was killed the following spring, so these were actually trenches his men built.\u00a0 It was just another great day, and an awesome way to end our vacation.\"get-attachment\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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