Today my aunt and uncle took me to Chatham Manor. It was pretty neat to stand on the embankment and look out over the river and try to imagine what must have been going through the minds of the men and women holed up in this house during the Civil War hoping they would not meet their demise. Fredericksburg has so much history and so many tiny windows into our nation’s past. It is also a quaint community with a downtown that invites exploring.