More travel notes — Fredericksburg

Sleep has gone from being a luxury to a necessity, so I don’t have the luxury Of writing anything. I do have some pictures, though of the remnants of that bloody battle, where General Burnside used 18th century tactics, designed for minimally accurate, slow-firing, smooth-bore muskets, to send his Union soldiers like lambs to the slaughter before the 19th century’s more accurate guns.

Here are some photos of bullet-marked buildings, ancient stone walls that once sheltered the Confederate troops who mowed down Union soldiers at the rate of 1,000 per hour, a cemetery where tens of thousands lie buried, a brick building before which doomed Union soldiers marched, and just the beauty of a place that was home to a terrible tragedy long ago: