American Civil War · BATTLE SITE ·
Battle of Fredericksburg (1862)
On the American Civil War map as “Fredericksburg”
13 Dec 1862 — Burnside sends fourteen brigades against a stone wall on Marye’s Heights; 12,600 Union casualties buy nothing at all. Lee, watching: “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”
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- Antietam and emancipation (chapter 7 of American Civil War)
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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