SESQUICENTENNIAL >> THOUSANDS ATTEND BATTLE RE-ENACTMENTS
BY KATIE THISDELL AND CLINT SCHEMMER
The Free Lance-Star
No photographer captured the carnage of the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862.
This time around, 150 years later, thousands of spectators left with photos of the action and aftermath.
One was Kathy Boyer, of Philadelphia. In period garb, with a hoop skirt, she held up a pink iPad to snap a picture of Confederate re-enactors gathering Saturday afternoon on Trench Hill above Sunken Road.
Boyer and her husband, Dan, a big believer in states’ rights, joined the 44th Georgia Infantry Regiment re-enactment unit in August.
“It’s a monumental occasion,” Boyer, who brought her two children, a full picnic basket and her Southern hospitality, said of the battle’s sesquicentennial. “It’s not going to happen again.”