This famous photography was taken probably within an hour after the fighting on May 3, 1863 along the Sunken Road at Fredericksburg. The dead soldiers are members of Barksdale's Brigade/NPS Take a walk to the Bloody Angle at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park , stand before the Kirkland Memorial just below the Sunken Road, or gaze at the bed where General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson died and the gravity of this nation's greatest internal conflict washes over you.