Join the Friends of Wilderness Battlefield in commemorating Black History Month by witnessing three untold stories of African-Americans who searched for freedom and civil rights during and after the Civil War. This living-history event will present different vignettes at three historic churches in downtown Fredericksburg. In December 1862, the town became famous for the Battle of Fredericksburg, a Confederate victory; President Lincoln had issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation less than three months earlier. Learn more.