Fredericksburg Fredericksburg

Author : George C. Rable
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Liza Proch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578903237

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The Fredericksburg Coloring Book by Liza Proch Pdf

This beautiful coloring book, hand illustrated by Liza Proch, celebrates the city of Fredericksburg, TX

Author : John Matteson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Randi Minetor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Francis Augustín O'Reilly
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807158524

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The Fredericksburg Campaign by Francis Augustín O'Reilly Pdf

The battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 involved hundreds of thousands of men; produced staggering, unequal casualties (13,000 Federal soldiers compared to 4,500 Confederates); ruined the career of Ambrose E. Burnside; embarrassed Abraham Lincoln; and distinguished Robert E. Lee as one of the greatest military strategists of his era. Francis Augustín O'Reilly draws upon his intimate knowledge of the battlegrounds to discuss the unprecedented nature of Fredericksburg's warfare. Lauded for its vivid description, trenchant analysis, and meticulous research, his award-winning book makes for compulsive reading.

Author : Randi Minetor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Edward J. Stackpole
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811745475

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The Fredericksburg Campaign by Edward J. Stackpole Pdf

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

Author : Chris Mackowski,Kristopher D. White
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611211375

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Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front by Chris Mackowski,Kristopher D. White Pdf

The first book-length study of two overlooked engagements that helped turned the tide of a pivotal Civil War battle. By May of 1863, the stone wall at the base of Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg, Virginia, loomed large over the Army of the Potomac, haunting its men with memories of slaughter from their crushing defeat there the previous December. They would assault it again with a very different result the following spring. This time the Union troops wrested the wall and high ground from the Confederates and drove west into the enemy’s rear. The inland drive stalled in heavy fighting at Salem Church. Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front is the first book to examine Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church and the central roles they played in the final Southern victory. Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have long appreciated the pivotal roles these engagements played in the Chancellorsville campaign, and just how close the Southern army came to grief—and the Union army to stunning success. Together they seamlessly weave their extensive newspaper, archival, and firsthand research into a compelling narrative to better understand these combats, which usually garner little more than a footnote to the larger story of Stonewall Jackson’s march and fatal wounding. Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front offers a thorough examination of the decision-making, movements, and fighting that led to the bloody stalemate at Salem Church, as Union soldiers faced the horror of an indomitable wall of stone—and an undersized Confederate division stood up to a Union juggernaut.

Author : Chris Mackowski,Kristopher D. White
Publisher : Emerging Civil War
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1611211468

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Simply Murder by Chris Mackowski,Kristopher D. White Pdf

The battle of Fredericksburg is usually remembered as the most lopsided Union defeat of the Civil War. The authors have worked for years along Fredericksburg's Sunken Road and Stone Wall, and they've escorted thousands of visitors across the battlefield. This book not only recounts Fredericksburg's tragic story of slaughter, but includes invaluabl

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bank accounts
ISBN : UOM:39015085136128

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Data Book, Operating Banks and Branches by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steve Watkins
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 0545837073

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Fallen in Fredericksburg by Steve Watkins Pdf

When a ghost from the Civil War--a teenage Union soldier--appears to Anderson and his friends, demanding to know what happened to his brother, it's up to Anderson, Greg, and Julie to solve the mystery.

Author : Chris Mackowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1621907007

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Decisions at Fredericksburg by Chris Mackowski Pdf

In the fall of 1862, after a leadership shake-up initiated by Lincoln, Gen. Ambrose Burnside assumed command of the Army of the Potomac and developed an aggressive plan to attack the Confederate capital of Richmond. However, in order to reach Richmond, Burnside had to march through Fredericksburg, where Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was well entrenched. After crossing the Rappahannock River under enemy fire, Burnside and his troops engaged Lee's army within the city, then launched a futile frontal assault against a heavily fortified ridge west of Fredericksburg. The end result was a decisive victory for the Confederacy, as the Union army suffered more than double the number of casualties as its foes. Burnside would resign a month later but would resurface as war in the Western Theater grew heated. Decisions at Fredericksburg explores the critical decisions made by Confederate and Union commanders during the battle and how these decisions shaped its outcome. Rather than offering a history of the battle, Chris Mackowski hones in on a sequence of critical decisions made by commanders on both sides of the contest to provide a blueprint of the Battle of Fredericksburg at its tactical core. Identifying and exploring the critical decisions in this way allows students of the battle to progress from knowledge of what happened to a mature grasp of why events happened. Complete with maps and a driving tour, Decisions at Fredericksburg is an indispensable primer, and readers looking for a concise introduction to the battle can tour this sacred ground--or read about it at their leisure--with key insights into the campaign and a deeper understanding of the Civil War itself. Decisions at Fredericksburg is the twelfth in a series of books that will explore the critical decisions of major campaigns and battles of the Civil War.

Author : K. M. Kostyal
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426308369

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1862, Fredericksburg by K. M. Kostyal Pdf

Details the Civil War battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and profiles some of the key figures involved in what was a decisive victory for the Confederacy.

Author : William K. Goolrick
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
ISBN : 0809447487

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Rebels Resurgent by William K. Goolrick Pdf

Discusses the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and events surrounding it.

Author : United States. Quartermaster's Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : National cemeteries
ISBN : HARVARD:HX6LSQ

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Roll of Honor by United States. Quartermaster's Department Pdf