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Willis Hill Cemetery is along the Marye’s Heights Trail. The cemetery’s brick walls provided partial shelter for the ammunition and battery horses of Captain Charles W. Squires’ Washington Artillery, who placed two rifled artillery pieces in gun pits in roughly this location during the December battle.
During the Second Battle of Fredericksburg on May 3, 1863, Squires and his Washington Artillery returned to Willis Hill. This time the odds were very different, and after a savage fight Union troops succeeded in taking the hills that had defied them in December. Squires and six guns of his battery were overrun and captured – the first guns the Washington Artillery lost in the war.
Burnside’s artillery had not spared it. I looked over the wall, which was badly smashed in places, and saw the overthrown monuments and broken tombstones lying on the ground.”
John T. Trowbridge, 1865
This quiet hilltop graveyard, dating to the mid-eighteenth century, sheltered Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Fredericksburg. Medical personnel treated wounded soldiers behind its walls, and at least one Southern regiment paused here before charging down the hill into the Sunken Road.
By the time the battle had ended, the cemetery was a wreck. Union artillery had scoured the hill, toppling the cemetery’s red brick walls and shattering its headstones. Although the damage was later repaired, the scarred marble gateposts stand as reminders of the fury that once engulfed this peaceful spot.
From the caption to the inset photo on the left:
The Willis Hill Cemetery is faintly visible in the background of this 1863 photograph taken from the Fredericksburg city waterfront.
From the caption in the center:
The graveyard is the final resting place for members of the Carmichael, Willis, and Wellford families.
The Fisherman / Ben Willis attacks Helen Shivers.
The Postcard
A postcard with no publisher's name bearing an image which they claim to be a real photograph. The card was posted in Rochester using a 1d. stamp on Sunday the 8th. February 1925. It was sent to:
Miss M. Chantler,
31, The Limes Avenue,
New Southgate,
London N11.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear May,
Just to wish you many
happy returns of your
birthday.
Hope you arrived home
safely.
Love,
Auntie May
xxxxx"
The Lost World
So what else happened on the day that Auntie May posted the card to her niece?
Well, on the 8th. February 1925, the American fantasy adventure film The Lost World premiered at the Astor Theatre in NYC before being released to other cinemas.
The film was notable for being the first to include special effects. Willis O'Brien used the stop motion technique to create the illusion of dinosaurs and other extinct creatures in action.
Jack Lemmon
The day also marked the birth in Newton, Massachusetts of the American film and television actor Jack Lemmon.
Jack was winner of Academy Awards for Mister Roberts in 1955 and Save the Tiger in 1973; Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor for Some Like It Hot (1960), The Apartment (1961) and Avanti! (1973), as well as two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Jack died in 2002.
Eugene Curnow
Also born on that day, in Lake City, Minnesota, was the American veterinarian Eugene Curnow.
Eugene pioneered the concept (in 1975) of the Mobile Pet Clinic. Eugene died in 2010.
Diana of the Dunes
The 8th. February 1925 also marked the death due to kidney failure at the age of 43 of Alice Mabel Gray.
Alice, who was known as Diana of the Dunes, was an American conservationist whose life alone in the sand dunes of the U.S. state of Indiana was instrumental in preserving the Indiana Dunes.
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Willis Hill Cemetery brick walls provided partial shelter for the ammunition and battery horses of Captain Charles W. Squires’ Washington Artillery, who placed two rifled artillery pieces in gun pits in roughly this location during the December battle.
During the Second Battle of Fredericksburg on May 3, 1863, Squires and his Washington Artillery returned to Willis Hill. This time the odds were very different, and after a savage fight Union troops succeeded in taking the hills that had defied them in December. Squires and six guns of his battery were overrun and captured – the first guns the Washington Artillery lost in the war.
“There is a private cemetery on the crest, surrounded by a brick wall. Burnside’s artillery had not spared it. I looked over the wall, which was badly smashed in places, and saw the overthrown monuments and broken tombstones lying on the ground.”
John T. Trowbridge, 1865
This quiet hilltop graveyard, dating to the mid-eighteenth century, sheltered Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Fredericksburg. Medical personnel treated wounded soldiers behind its walls, and at least one Southern regiment paused here before charging down the hill into the Sunken Road.
By the time the battle had ended, the cemetery was a wreck. Union artillery had scoured the hill, toppling the cemetery’s red brick walls and shattering its headstones. Although the damage was later repaired, the scarred marble gateposts stand as reminders of the fury that once engulfed this peaceful spot.
XA-VOM Volaris
2-AVOM Amentum Aircraft Leasing
HI1080 Sky Cana
2-WLFC Willis Lease Finance Corp
OE-IAG Willis Lease Finance Corp
EC-OLF Volotea Airlines
XA-VOM Volaris
2-AVOM Amentum Aircraft Leasing
HI1080 Sky Cana
2-WLFC Willis Lease Finance Corp
OE-IAG Willis Lease Finance Corp
EC-OLF Volotea Airlines
XA-VOM Volaris
2-AVOM Amentum Aircraft Leasing
HI1080 Sky Cana
2-WLFC Willis Lease Finance Corp
OE-IAG Willis Lease Finance Corp
EC-OLF Volotea Airlines
At the Griffin Museum of Science & Industry.
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Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois.
Saturday, March 8, 2025.
At the Griffin Museum of Science & Industry.
www.msichicago.org/
Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois.
Saturday, March 8, 2025.
A light snow blanketed trees this morning in River North, Chicago.
