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The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.The combat between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee included futile frontal attacks by the Union army on December 13 against entrenched ...
On December 13, 1862, Kirkland's unit had formed at the stone wall at the base of "Marye's Heights" near Fredericksburg, Virginia. In the action that followed, he and his unit inflicted heavy casualties on the Union attackers. On the night of December 13, walking wounded made their way to the field hospital while those who were disabled were ...
Skinkers Neck on the Rappanhannock River below Fredericksburg, VA (1862) Union General Humphrey charging during the battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1862) The Fall of Reynolds - The death of John Fulton Reynolds at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, depicted by Alfred Rudolph Waud (July 1, 1863)
111-B-514. By Captain Andrew J Russell. Confederate dead behind the stone wall of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 3, 1863-the 6th Maine penetrated the CS Lines at this point General Haupt and W. Wright, Superintendent of the Mlilitary Railroad survey a Confederate Artillery Battery cassion on Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg Va that was wrecked by Union artillery fire May 5, 1863.
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (April 10, 1823 – December 13, 1862), also known as T. R. R. Cobb, was an American lawyer, author, politician, and Confederate States Army officer, killed in the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War. He was the brother of noted Confederate statesman Howell Cobb.
U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901: Return of casualties in the Union forces commanded by Major General Ambrose E. Burnside, U. S. Army, at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 11-15, 1862. National Park ...
English: During the Battle of Fredericksburg (December 13th, 1862) a crisis occured on the Union side. When the brigade of General John C. Robinson assaulted the Confederate position on Prospect Hill, a counter attack threatened the Union guns while the generals horse was killed, pinning him to the ground.