GC1HYPJ Lean Mean Thirteen (Traditional Cache) in Virginia, United States created by goingtopot

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Hidden : 12/7/2008

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Size: Size: small (small)

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NOTE: coordinates changed on 7/31/10 with a lowering of the difficulty from 2.5 to 1.5.

This cache is part of a Stephanie Plum cache series as my initial cache placements, so this series will eventually total fourteen and should be continued as more Stephanie Plum novels are published.

Our family's better half reads such novels religiously, and I've been known to get caught up in this catchy book-set as well.

Introducing this cache based on Evanonich's novel Lean Mean Thirteen.

I'm placing the cache as close to the associated title reference point as possible. :o-)

BYOP!

This cache is dedicated to Confederate BG William Barksdale, commander of the 13th Infantry, which saw action at Fredericksburg during the December, 1862 battle.

Barksdale was a congressman who resigned his seat and joined Mississippi forces in the Spring of 1861. He commanded the Brigade comprised of the 13th, 17th, 18th, and 21st Mississippi Infantries, and was promoted to Brigadier General in August, 1862. He was killed at Gettysburg.

At Fredericksburg in December 1862, Barksdale and his brigade executed a solitary, gritty defense of the waterfront, where they repulsed Federal attempts to bridge the Rappahannock River.

Barksdale's men clung to their position even after concentrated artillery bombardments.

Barksdale's assignment at Fredericksburg was to hold the heights above Fredericksburg with his brigade of approximately 1,500 men without additional supporting troops.

They were eventually overrun by Sedgwick's 23,000-strong Sixth Corps, but Barksdale evacuated his survivors, and took back the ground the next day.

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