Rappahannock River
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Oct 19, 2026
Uriah KiserHOST
It's all water.
Uriah KiserHOST
It's the Rappahannock River, Chesapeake Bay.
Uriah KiserHOST
This is his home.
Uriah KiserHOST
I mean, I believe he's from Montrose or Tappahannock.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
He was a man of fine presence, of great personal magnetism, and had the reputation of being one of our most efficient and successful corps commanders.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
When the campaign of Chancellorsville commenced, the Army of the Potomac was posted on the left bank of the Rappahannock, opposite Fredericksburg, among the Stafford Hills, in a position which was considered almost impregnable.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
It rested upon the Potomac River, and as all of its supplies came by water, they were not subject to delay or interruption of any kind, nor were they endangered by the movements of the enemy.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
At the period referred to, General Hooker had under him a force of about 124,500 men of all arms, 11,500 of which were cavalry.
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Mark SmithNARRATOR
To carry out this plan and make it a complete surprise to the enemy, it became necessary to leave Gibbon's division of Couch's corps behind, for as his encampment at Falmouth was in full view of the Confederate forces on the opposite side, to withdraw it would have been to notify them that some unusual movement was going on.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
So far the idea was simply to crush the opposing army, but Hooker's plan went farther and involved the capture of Lee's entire force.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
To accomplish this, he directed Stoneman to start two weeks in advance of the main body with 10,000 cavalry, cross at the upper fords of the Rappahannock, and sweep down upon Lee's communications with Richmond, breaking up railroads and canals, cutting telegraph wires, and intercepting supplies of all kinds.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
As the rebel commissariat found great difficulty in keeping more than four days' rations on hand at a time, Stoneman's raid would almost necessarily force Lee to fall back on his depots and give up Fredericksburg.
JohnHOST
Um, so in 2024 after they identify Alan Wade Wilmer Senior, which is the worst serial killer name ever, um, it's revealed that his older brother Keith was a suspect in the 1985 murder of a woman named Mary Kaiser Harding, who would've been 24 years old.
JohnHOST
Her body was found floating in the Rappahannock River.
JohnHOST
Keith's wife, Brenda Pittman Wilder- Wilmer, worked at the same bank as Mary Harding.
JohnHOST
Keith had been banned from the bank after he had sexually har- harassed customers and employees, including Mary.
Casey James BoyntonGUEST
It blows my mind.
Casey James BoyntonGUEST
You know, I was a HRC president of Rappahannock River Retriever Club in Virginia two years ago.
Casey James BoyntonGUEST
And it was, you know, I was fortunate enough to have my good buddy Noah Ford who helped me out a lot.
Casey James BoyntonGUEST
And I would help him.
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Casey James BoyntonGUEST
Yeah, I do.
Casey James BoyntonGUEST
I live just outside of Tappahannock, Virginia, which is about 30 minutes east-northeast of Richmond.
Casey James BoyntonGUEST
A small little river town right on the Rappahannock River.
Casey James BoyntonGUEST
Got beautiful farmland out there that I'm fortunate enough to train on.
Josh JohnsonHOST
And so he rushes.
Josh JohnsonHOST
The town of Fredericksburg is situated just below the Rappahannock River, and Burnside has to cross the Rappahannock with his entire 115,000 to 120,000-man army.
Josh JohnsonHOST
He's got to get them across the Rappahannock, but he has no bridges.
Josh JohnsonHOST
And so it creates this situation where he's got to, you know, get his troops across the river.
Josh JohnsonHOST
They have to create pontoon bridges, but there's Confederate sharpshooters inside of Fredericksburg picking off his men.
Josh JohnsonHOST
Lee reportedly says, this is from Volume 2 of Shelby Foote's Trilogy of the Civil War, quote, "Those people delight to destroy the weak and those who can make no defense.
Josh JohnsonHOST
It just suits them." End quote.
Josh JohnsonHOST
Regardless, Burnside establishes a beachhead, as it were, at Fredericksburg and then assembles his army in three columns on the Confederate side of the Rappahannock River and marches out to meet them.
Bill ThomasHOST
I'm not saying that makes him a murderer.
Bill ThomasHOST
But the Wilmer brothers, the two older brothers, Keith and Alan, were suspected of the Mary Kaiser Harding murder, and many aspects of Mary Kaiser Harding's murder, her being dumped in the Rappahannock River, weighted down with chains and fishing weights and things that watermen would use, although ultimately her body did float back up to the surface, it's very disturbing and extremely reminiscent of the Colonial Parkway murders.
Bill ThomasHOST
So they've never solved that case.
Bill ThomasHOST
They did put away a man named Emerson Stevens, who served over 30 years until the Innocence Project, Deirdre Enright, and a team at the University of Virginia were able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was not involved.
MJ DixonGUEST
It's just a really nice little event.
MJ DixonGUEST
We're at Belvoir Plantation on the Rappahannock River, which is absolutely stunning.
MJ DixonGUEST
Um, we've got great speakers.
MJ DixonGUEST
We've got Jessica Tobac joining us for the first time, and she is so much damn fun.
Jonathan HundleyHOST
The county agreed that Amazon has vested legal rights to build a data center campus.
Jonathan HundleyHOST
And, in exchange, Amazon granted the locality $10 million toward the King George Schools Career and Technical Education Building and agreed it would not construct any data centers along the Rappahannock River.
Jonathan HundleyHOST
Spotsylvania Planning Commission Chair Tim Gronow made a fashion statement Wednesday night that could raise the ire of data center developers.
Jonathan HundleyHOST
Cronow wore a Safeguard Spotsy t-shirt in support of the organization, a group of residents fighting data centers coming to the county.
Will TannerHOST
This was much needed, and that Lee had time to do it all was nearly miraculous.
Will TannerHOST
As Douglas Southall Freeman notes in Volume 2 of his biography of Lee, quote, "...precisely two months after the exhausted survivors of the Maryland operations dragged themselves back across the Potomac, they were marching swiftly in long, confident columns to meet the enemy on the Rappahannock.
Will TannerHOST
Never, except during the dreadful last retreat to Appomattox, was the army more disorganized than when it returned to Virginia on September 19, 1862." Never, unless after Chancellorsville, was its spirit so high or assured as when it was moving on November 19, 1862, from the hills around Culpeper to the heights at Fredericksburg.
Will TannerHOST
It was a recovery, in every respect, as remarkable as that which in less than three weeks turned the defeated host of Pope into the storming columns that carried McClellan's flags to the walls of the Dunker Church.
Will TannerHOST
Burnside was an incompetent buffoon of an officer who sported enormous whiskers and had twice turned down command of the Army because he believed himself incompetent for the task.
Will TannerHOST
He, once put in charge, felt compelled to launch an immediate, aggressive winter campaign, pronouncing as he did so that he would be waging war upon the South as he invaded, and he was very full of himself and inclined to be harsh towards Southern civilians.
Will TannerHOST
Burnside determined that he would march his 120,000-man army rapidly southeastward down the north bank of the Rappahannock River, cross the river on pontoon bridges at the historic colonial town of Fredericksburg, and race down the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad to capture the Confederate capital before Lee could intervene.
Will TannerHOST
The moment began with impressive speed.
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Augustin Jr. inherits the family's original plantation back in Westmoreland County, the place George was actually born.
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George himself gets the smaller Rappahannock River property along with 10 enslaved people who worked that land at 11 years old.
speaker_0HOST
That's the whole inheritance.
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A modest farm and 10 human beings handed to a child who's barely old enough to understand what either of those things actually means.
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