The Stone Wall at Marye’s Heights provided cover for Confederate soldiers against repeated Union attacks on Dec. 13, 1862. Fifteen Union brigades charged the wall, each failing. The Battle of Fredericksburg staged the largest number of Confederate and Union soldiers to fight in a single Civil War battle, 172,000 men, and was one of the deadliest with more than 18,000 casualties on both sides. (Photo provided)

PARKERSBURG — The Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley is taking registrations for its next excursion, the Virginia Campaigns Field Trip on Sept. 13-15.

More than a dozen sites are planned with interpretation provided by Scott Britton, executive director of The Castle Historic House Museum in Marietta, that will be based on his research, personal memoirs, letters, official military records and other sources.

Don Pfanz, author and retired staff historian at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, will discuss the legacy of the four bloody battles at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania, which are among the most contested landscapes of the Civil War.

The registration fee is $375 per person for shared-double occupancy and $495 for private accommodations. Registration, which is first come first serve, includes charter bus transportation, overnight accommodations at Country Inn and Suites by Radisson, 656 Warrenton Road, Fredericksburg, admissions and interpretation at each attraction, battlefield or site.

For more information or registration, call Nancy Arthur at 740 525-7479, email nancyadvantage@yahoo.com or go to www.cwrtmov.org and click on Field Trips. A more-detailed itinerary, suggested reading and viewing selections, recommended dining venues, Fredericksburg and National Park Service tourist and visitor information will be provided following receipt of the registration.

Moved by the cries of the Union wounded on the night of Dec. 13, 1862, Confederate Sgt. Richard Rowland Kirkland is remembered as the Angel of Marye’s Heights for climbing over the Stone Wall in the darkness to provide water and comfort to wounded and dying soldiers. (Photo provided)

Proceeds from the field trip fund the Roundtable’s historical marker projects.

The bus will depart from Marietta and Parkersburg on the morning of Sept. 13 and return on the evening of Sept. 15.

Among sites and attractions on the itinerary are:

*Brandy Station Battlefield Park, the site of the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War

*Visitors Center at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park

Ellwood Manor was a plantation home and field hospital during the Civil War. It is where Stonewall Jackson’s arm is buried. (Photo provided)

*Fitzhugh’s Crossing, the boyhood home of George Washington and a site of the critical Rappahannock River crossing

*Battle of Marye’s Heights, the site of the Sunken Road and Stone Wall

*Chancellorsville Battlefield Visitors Center where Robert E. Lee’s and Stonewall Jackson’s strategy is still studied today by military historians

*Chancellorsville Battlefield site where Jackson was mortally wounded by friendly fire

*Ellwood Manor, the former plantation home, field hospital and resting place of Jackson’s arm

*The Wilderness Battlefield where the first confrontation between Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Lee ends in a stalemate

*Mule Shoe Salient, Spotsylvania , the site of bitter hand-to-hand fighting

*Fredericksburg National Cemetery where there will be a flag ceremony to honor local soldiers who never returned home

*Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Jackson’s home and burial site

*Washington & Lee University at Lexington, Va.

*John Wesley Methodist Church, Lewisburg, W.Va., the burial site of William Parks Rucker

*Battle of Lewisburg and Confederate Cemetery, Washington County’s 36th OVI’s first battle