The Battle of Fredericksburg (Virginia) ends): After five days of fighting, General Robert E. Lee, commanding the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Northern Virginia, defeats the compulsory Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside. Almost 1,900 Americans were killed.
[restored 4/3/2022]
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 298.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 173.
American Civil War, 1862
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