Battle of Fredericksburg • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • Armies
The monument to Parker’s Battery in in the National Cemetery at Fredericksburg, at Stop One on the Fredericksburg Battlefield Auto Tour. It is at the southern end of the cemetery, and is just a short distance from the Second Battle of Fredericksburg wayside marker and on the other side of the bushes from the Marye’s Heights Compass Rose.
This is the only monument in the park to a Virginia unit.
The monument to Parker’s Battery is the low stone marker on the left of the bushes.
From the marker:
May 3, 1863
In this vicinity the men of Parker’s
Confederate Battery (the “Boy Company”)
under Lt. J. Thompson Brown fought
two guns, twice gallantly assisting in
repulsing the Union VI Corps before
being outflanked and overwhelmed.
Location of the Marker
The marker is in the National Cemetery southwest of the Visitor Center. Follow the path from the Sunken Road entry to the cemetery, up the hill past the flagpole, then follow the crest of the hill about 400 feet past the flagpole.