VA, USA
Fredericksburg
First-person accounts and interpretive stories from Fredericksburg.
2 Stories
Accounts & Voices
Historical Voice
The Man Who Spent His Fortune on a War
Fielding Lewis
Fielding Lewis was not a soldier. He was a planter, a merchant, and George Washington's brother-in-law, and when the Revolution came he contributed in the way that wealthy men who were not soldiers co...
Historical VoiceThe Death of Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer had survived Culloden. He had survived Braddock's Monongahela disaster, riding away with two wounds while the army collapsed around him. He had survived twenty years of frontier medicine i...