Fifth Corps Monument - Fredericksburg, VA
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The Fifth Corps Monument is located just inside the main gate of the Fredericksburg National Cemetery in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 05/09/2011
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The Fifth Corps Monument is located just inside the main gate of the
Fredericksburg National Cemetery in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
From the National Park Service website:
"Dedicated in 1901 to the service of the Fifth Corps in the war, it was erected largely through the efforts of its commander in the The Battle of Fredericksburg, Daniel Butterfield. It is one of eighty monuments in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Behind the monument are the graves of several officers, including Lieutenant Colonel Edward Hill of the 16th Michigan Infantry, who won the Medal of Honor leading his troops in a charge at the Battle of Cold Harbor. He is one of the highest ranking officers in the cemetery."
There are plaques on all four sides of the monument. The plaque on the front side reads:
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To Commemorate the Valor
of
The Fifth Corps
Army of the Potomac
and
In Loving Memory of
Its Heroic Dead
This Monument has been Erected by
Major General
Daniel Butterfield U.S.V.
Its Commander on the Field
December 13th 1862
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