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. The job of Barksdale's Missippi brigade was to delay any Federal attempt to cross the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg. Gen. Henry J. Hunt, and ordered him to blast Fredericksburg into submission with some 150 guns trained on the city from Stafford Heights. The bombardment continued for nearly two hours, during wich time 8,000 projectiles rained destruction on Fredericksburg.