Located on Willis Hill, a part of the historic Marye's Heights,
overlooking Fredericksburg and the beautiful Rappahannock Valley, the
Union soldiers who were killed in the various battles around
Fredericksburg and those who died in camp are interred. This cemetery has
the largest number of interments of any in the country, there being
15,295, of these about 2,500 are known and their names, regiment and state
are registered in a book in the superintendent's office.
Just to the left entering the cemetery General Daniel Butterfield has
erected a beautiful monument to the valor of the Fifth Army Corps, which
he commanded.
To the right at the top of the hill is a monument to the 127th Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Colonel W. W. Jennings, Commanding.
In the center of the cemetery the State of Pennsylvania has erected a
monument to commemorate the charge of General Humphrey's Division, Fifth
Corps, in the battle of Fredericksburg, 1862.