Fredericksburg

Author : George C. Rable
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807867938

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Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! by George C. Rable Pdf

During the battle of Gettysburg, as Union troops along Cemetery Ridge rebuffed Pickett's Charge, they were heard to shout, "Give them Fredericksburg!" Their cries reverberated from a clash that, although fought some six months earlier, clearly loomed large in the minds of Civil War soldiers. Fought on December 13, 1862, the battle of Fredericksburg ended in a stunning defeat for the Union. Confederate general Robert E. Lee suffered roughly 5,000 casualties but inflicted more than twice that many losses--nearly 13,000--on his opponent, General Ambrose Burnside. As news of the Union loss traveled north, it spread a wave of public despair that extended all the way to President Lincoln. In the beleaguered Confederacy, the southern victory bolstered flagging hopes, as Lee and his men began to take on an aura of invincibility. George Rable offers a gripping account of the battle of Fredericksburg and places the campaign within its broader political, social, and military context. Blending battlefield and home front history, he not only addresses questions of strategy and tactics but also explores material conditions in camp, the rhythms and disruptions of military life, and the enduring effects of the carnage on survivors--both civilian and military--on both sides.

Author : Tony Kent
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0738586617

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Fredericksburg by Tony Kent Pdf

Fredericksburg, one of America's most historic cities, sits midpoint between the nation's capital and Richmond. Many visitors come to this city to walk in the footsteps of illustrious Americans, admire their homes, view the battlefields nearby, and enjoy true Southern hospitality.

Author : Randi Minetor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762757626

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Fredericksburg by Randi Minetor Pdf

MOVE THROUGH TIME AS NEVER BEFORE with this one-of-a-kind guide, which brings you face-to-face with the people and events that shaped the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Author : Edward James Stackpole,D. Scott Hartwig
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0811723372

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The Fredericksburg Campaign by Edward James Stackpole,D. Scott Hartwig Pdf

The Army of the Potomac's defeat by General Lee. A classic reference.

Author : Carl Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782005049

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Fredericksburg 1862 by Carl Smith Pdf

In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could bring the Confederates to bay, it couldn't pin them in one place long enough to destroy them. In December 1862, General Burnside, newly appointed to command the Army of the Potomac, planned to seize and secure the town of Fredericksburg, and then take the Confederate capital of Richmond. Carl Smith's book details the epic struggle that engulfed the Union side as it crossed the Rappahannock on December 11, encountering stiff opposition from Lee's men.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Park Service Division of Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : PURD:32754071785996

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Fredericksburg Battlefields by Anonim Pdf

Describes the Civil War battles fought in the Fredericksburg, Virginia area, and the condition of those battlefields today.

Author : Ted Kamieniak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625844668

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Fredericksburg, Virginia by Ted Kamieniak Pdf

Ted Kamieniak collected these fifteen superb articles to amaze and fascinate all who feel "history" is simply a well-worn path. Each selection delivers fresh perspective and intriguing events connected to Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Fastidiously investigated and painstakingly written, this eclectic compilation presents little-visited neighborhoods of historical inquiry. Meet Fredericksburg's first cop on the beat; discover the persistence of hoodoo and conjuration in black plantation society; delve into the account of State Senator Benjamin Pitts and Fredericksburg's first drive-in movie theater--and so much more! Whether your interests lie in social history, vernacular architecture, historic technology or folkways, you will find this book an entertaining and profitable read.

Author : Robert Allan Stevens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781300038375

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Sound and Fury: Dahlgren at Fredericksburg by Robert Allan Stevens Pdf

Ulric Dahlgren led a Union cavalry raid on the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia on the cold Sunday morning of November 9, 1862. Only about 3 hours long, the incident is a minor footnote in Civil War history. Yet this story is a microcosm of the war as experienced by the citizens, newspapers North and South, the individual soldier and his officers. First person accounts paint a detailed picture of the events of that morning, eschewing the spin of triumph or perfidy so common to military narratives.

Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807887776

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The Fredericksburg Campaign by Gary W. Gallagher Pdf

It is well this is so terrible! We should grow too fond of it," said General Robert E. Lee as he watched his troops repulse the Union attack at Fredericksburg on 13 December 1863. This collection of seven original essays by leading Civil War historians reinterprets the bloody Fredericksburg campaign and places it within a broader social and political context. By analyzing the battle's antecedents as well as its aftermath, the contributors challenge some long-held assumptions about the engagement and clarify our picture of the war as a whole. The book begins with revisionist assessments of the leadership of Ambrose Burnside and Robert E. Lee and a portrait of the conduct and attitudes of one group of northern troops who participated in the failed assaults at Marye's Heights. Subsequent essays examine how both armies reacted to the battle and how the northern and southern homefronts responded to news of the carnage at Frederickburg. A final chapter explores the impact of the battle on the residents of the Fredericksburg area and assesses changing Union attitudes about the treatment of Confederate civilians. The contributors are William Marvel, Alan T. Nolan, Carol Reardon, Gary W. Gallagher, A. Wilson Greene, George C. Rable, and William A. Blair.

Author : Randi Minetor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493017768

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Historical Tours Fredericksburg by Randi Minetor Pdf

This one-of-a-kind guide brings you face-to-face with the people and events that shaped the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Author : John Matteson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393247084

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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation by John Matteson Pdf

Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America. December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American. Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause. A Worse Place Than Hell brings together the prodigious forces of war with the intimacy of individual lives. Matteson interweaves the historic and the personal in a work as beautiful as it is powerful.

Author : Alfred Moore Scales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Fredericksburg Campaign, 1862
ISBN : UIUC:30112047583585

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The Battle of Fredericksburg by Alfred Moore Scales Pdf

Author : Kenneth Hafertepe
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781623492724

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A Guide to the Historic Buildings of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County by Kenneth Hafertepe Pdf

This richly illustrated book tracks the evolution of Fredericksburg architecture and guides readers through the streets of this once-westernmost German settlement in America, pointing out the log, fachwerk, and stone buildings that housed the town’s full-time residents, its weekenders, and the businesses of the nineteenth century. Abundant with details uncovered by Hafertepe in his research, including corrections to construction dates based on newly tapped records, this guide features those buildings visible to visitors from the public streets and sidewalks. The author lists which buildings are open for tours and which ones have been converted to public use such as museums, stores, or restaurants. The buildings of Fredericksburg reflect memories of classic German construction and technique with a gradual transition to American styles, including a few remarkable decades that were neither purely German nor American distinctively but saw the creation of a regional style. This book allows readers to walk down the streets of Fredericksburg and see the layers of Texas history on display: everything from a pioneer log cabin to an art deco courthouse.

Author : Christopher J. Petty
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781637956090

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Battle Digest: Fredericksburg by Christopher J. Petty Pdf

The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned. In the autumn of 1862, Lincoln’s new commander, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, promised swift action by moving south against Fredericksburg to open a route to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. With Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army divided, Burnside believed he could do it all before Lee could react. But when his pontoon bridges failed to arrive, Burnside’s campaign started unraveling. When the bridges finally arrived, it was too late: Lee had been given the time he needed to prepare his defense. What happened next was arguably the greatest military blunder of the American Civil War. Burnside launched a piecemeal frontal assault into the strength of Lee’s defenses. The result was disastrous.

Author : Author:Sylvanius Jackson Quinn
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066453824

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Fredericksburg, Virginia 1608-1908 by Author:Sylvanius Jackson Quinn Pdf

This book covers the history of a city called Fredericksburg, located in the state of Virginia, United States. Located near where the Rappahannock River crosses the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, Fredericksburg was a prominent port in Virginia during the colonial era. During the Civil War, Fredericksburg, located halfway between the capitals of the opposing forces, was the site of the Battle of Fredericksburg and Second Battle of Fredericksburg. These battles are preserved, in part, as the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. More than 10,000 African-Americans in the region left slavery for freedom in 1862 alone, getting behind Union lines.