The Fredericksburg Campaign

Author : Francis Augustín O'Reilly
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Edward J. Stackpole
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Francis Augustin O'Reilly
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780807140680

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The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock by Francis Augustin O'Reilly Pdf

Author : Victor Brooks
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89077200319

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The Fredericksburg Campaign by Victor Brooks Pdf

Union General Ambrose Burnside's plan to cross the Rappahannock River on December 12, 1862 and surprise Robert E. Lee's overextended Army of Northern Virginia was a brilliant one, but the plan for a river crossing in winter was overly ambitious, and Burnside was one of the unluckiest generals of the war. What followed bore more resemblance to the doomed assaults of World War I than to a Civil War battle, as Burnside refused to call off the attack and fed more troops into the slaughter.

Author : Daniel E. Sutherland
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803242530

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Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville by Daniel E. Sutherland Pdf

Looks at the connection between the two battles, showing how political and military backstage maneuvers undermined the Union effort

Author : George C. Rable
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Chris Mackowski,Kristopher D. White
Publisher : Emerging Civil War
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Chris Mackowski,Kristopher D. White
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Matthew Forney Steele,Army School of the Line (U.S.). Department of Military Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1907*
Category : Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862
ISBN : OCLC:16854117

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The Fredericksburg Campaign by Matthew Forney Steele,Army School of the Line (U.S.). Department of Military Art Pdf

Author : John Matteson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Matthew Steele,Walter Seager
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503231542

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The Fredericksburg Campaign by Matthew Steele,Walter Seager Pdf

On November 14, Burnside, now in command of the Army of the Potomac, sent a corps to occupy the vicinity of Falmouth near Fredericksburg. The rest of the army soon followed. Lee reacted by entrenching his army on the heights behind the town. On December 11, Union engineers laid five pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock under fire. On the 12th, the Federal army crossed over, and on December 13, Burnside mounted a series of futile frontal assaults on Prospect Hill and Marye's Heights that resulted in staggering casualties. Meade's division, on the Union left flank, briefly penetrated Jackson's line but was driven back by a counterattack. Union generals C. Feger Jackson and George Bayard, and Confederate generals Thomas R.R. Cobb and Maxey Gregg were killed. On December 15, Burnside called off the offensive and recrossed the river, ending the campaign. Burnside initiated a new offensive in January 1863, which quickly bogged down in the winter mud. The abortive "Mud March" and other failures led to Burnside's replacement by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker in January 1863.

Author : Philip W. Parsons
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476610221

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The Union Sixth Army Corps in the Chancellorsville Campaign by Philip W. Parsons Pdf

The winter of 1862-1863 found the Union Army of the Potomac in sad shape, after bloody battles, multiple defeats, lack of adequate provisions and high desertion rates. When Major General Joseph Hooker took command, he set about revamping conditions. Instructed by President Lincoln to make the destruction of General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia the Union’s top priority, Hooker mounted the Chancellorsville Campaign. Lee’s aggressive battlefield manner coupled with Hooker’s failure to initiate an assault led to a sound defeat by Confederate forces and left Hooker—who ultimately had only himself and his lack of initiative to blame—looking for a scapegoat. Among those Hooker attempted to hold responsible was the courageous Sixth Army Corps, Major General John Sedgwick commanding, the unit responsible for the sole Union victory of the entire campaign. This history of the battlefield engagements of the Sixth Army Corps on May 3 and 4, 1863, is compiled from contemporary accounts and a variety of postwar histories.

Author : Francis Augustín O'Reilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862
ISBN : OCLC:1102416939

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The Fredericksburg Campaign by Francis Augustín O'Reilly Pdf

Author : James Longstreet
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066457785

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The Battle of Fredericksburg by James Longstreet Pdf

This is written as a first-person account of the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War. Longstreet was a lieutenant general on the Confederate side. This battle was one of the bloodiest of the whole war and certainly extremely important.