Results for Fredericksburg Campaign
Fredericksburg Campaign, December 1862
The Battle of Fredericksburg began on the morning of Decem...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 13, 1862. On this ridge, called Marye's Heights, ...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 13, 1862. This highway, the Old Richmond Stage Ro...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 11, 1862. The peacetime bridges having been destr...
Fredericksburg Campaign
With Richmond as his objective, Gen. Ambrose Burnside star...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 13, 1862. Here, on the wood’s edge facing the fie...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 13, 1862. Here in the Lansdowne Valley Longstreet...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 13, 1862. The blue columns of the Army of the Pot...
Fredericksburg Campaign
Frustrated by the Army of the Potomac’s lack of progress, ...
Results for Fredericksburg Campaign
Fredericksburg Campaign, December 1862
The Battle of Fredericksburg began on the morning of December 11, 1862, when Confederate sharpshooters opened fire on Federal engineers building a pontoon bridge by which the Union Army of the Potomac planned to cross the Rappahannock River. Fredericksburg's defenders ...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 13, 1862. On this ridge, called Marye's Heights, blazed the cannon of Col. J.B. Walton's Louisiana battalion, the Washington Artillery. Late in the day, out of ammunition, it yielded the post to Col. E.P. Alexander's Reserve Artillery. Gen. Robert ...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 13, 1862. This highway, the Old Richmond Stage Road, here passes wartime Smithfield, now the Fredericksburg Country Club. Out of the ravine alongside the present golf links (your left front), Meade’s Division emerged to form lines of battle and ...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 11, 1862. The peacetime bridges having been destroyed, engineers of Burnside’s Federal Army began laying pontoons across the Rappahannock. Here, overlooking the upper pontoon site, Confederates of Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade, sheltered in houses and cellars along this street, stopped ...
Fredericksburg Campaign
With Richmond as his objective, Gen. Ambrose Burnside started the Federal Army of the Potomac from Warrenton on November 15, 1862. Forcing a crossing of the Rappahannock on December 11, he occupied Fredericksburg and the plain south of town along ...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 13, 1862. Here, on the wood’s edge facing the fields of the Lansdowne Valley, Gen. George Pickett’s 9,000 men, including soldiers from Fredericksburg, held a vital part of Lee’s line. The enemy did not attack Pickett’s Division and the ...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 13, 1862. Here in the Lansdowne Valley Longstreet’s right flank joined with “Stonewall” Jackson’s left. Confederate infantry was deployed on the valley floor and cannon rimmed the hills behind, forming a deep pocket in the Confederate line. During mid-afternoon, ...
Fredericksburg Campaign
December 13, 1862. The blue columns of the Army of the Potomac deployed here in the Canal Ditch valley, along the route of present Kenmore Avenue. Then with drums beating and flags flying, the long battle lines advanced towards Marye’s ...
Fredericksburg Campaign
Frustrated by the Army of the Potomac’s lack of progress, President Abraham Lincoln replaced army commander Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan with Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, who assumed command on 9 Nov. 1862. Within a week, he had the ...
