Regular admission charged. Fund-raiser for John S. Mosby Foundation. Civil War-period band, light refreshments. Period attire recommended, but not required.
Tours depart from the depot visitors center.
Participants should arrive 15 minutes early to purchase tickets. Proceeds benefit the Museum of Culpeper History. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside Many visitors to Fredericksburg consider Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside was either insane or stupid, based upon his repeated attacks upon the stone wall during the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862. While Burnside made mistakes in this battle, many people view the general with tunnel vision, seeing only his actions at Fredericksburg. At a meeting of the Rappahannock Valley Civil War Roundtable, Stafford County resident Milton Ford partially addressed this question by looking at Burnside's campaign along coastal North Carolina in early 1862 Ford's grandfather and other ancestors served under Burnside in this expedition.