Frederick Douglass

(1818 - 1895)

Champion of human freedom, African American abolitionist, newspaper editor, U.S. Colored Troops recruiter, U.S. ambassador to Haiti, and orator, Frederick Douglass gave his last public address "Against Lynch Law" here on February 1, 1895. A frequent visitor ...

Frederick Douglass

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are those who want crops without plowing up the ground - they want rain without thunder and lightning." - Frederick Douglass

Born in February, 1818, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Frederick ...

Fredericksburg Battlefield

Before you looms Marye's Heights, a key point in the two major Civil War battles. At the base of the heights, bordered by a stone wall, lies the Sunken Road. In December 1862 Confederate troops standing in the road repelled ...

Furman Frederick Kugler

This is the actual bicycle used by the late

Furman Frederick Kugler

of Somerville, New Jersey

in winning the First and Second

Tour of Somerville

May 20, 1940 – May 30, 1941

Furman was victorious in over 200 races

including 10 N.J. State Amateur Championships

and 5 National ...

Charles Frederick Taylor

(Front):Here fell

Charles Frederick Taylor

July 2, 1863

Age 23 years 4 months 26 days

Colonel of "The Bucktails"

First Rifle Regiment P.V.R.C.

Erected by his comrades and friends

1905

(Back):Charles Frederick Taylor

Born February 6 1840

Enrolled May 16 1861

Captain Co. H. 13th Penna. Reserves

First Rifles May 28 1861

Colonel ...

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park

Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania—this is the bloodiest landscape in North America. No place more vividly reflects the Civil War’s tragic cost in all its forms. A city bombarded, bloodied, and looted. Farms large and small ruined. Refugees by the ...

John Frederick Hartranft

1830 - 1889

1861 - Raised 4th and 51st Pennsylvania Volunteers

1865 - Special Provost Marshall for Lincoln Conspirators

1866 - 1879 Governor of Pennsylvania, State Constitution Revised

1879 - Father of Modern National Guard of Pennsylvania

1886 - Medal of Honor for Valor at ...

Adolph Frederick Rupp

Born in Halstead, Kansas, of German emigrant parents Sept. 2, 1901, he was quite proud that he was a full-blooded German.

Rupp graduated from Halstead High School and then attended the University of Kansas where he played basketball under Coach Phog ...

Fredericksburg 1778

From September 20 to November 28, 1778 George Washington, his generals and army of 13,000 were located in or around Fredericksburg, with the John Kane house serving as headquarters. From here emanated George Washington’s strategy of “observing and containing” the ...

Fredericksburg

During the Revolutionary War this was Fredericksburg & the main military crossroad. Gen. Washington’s Army camped here Sept. to Nov. 1778

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 311 and New York Route 22, on the right when traveling ...