Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to ... Burnside's plan was to cross the river quickly at Fredericksburg, Virginia, surprising General Robert E. Lee's Confederate ...

As most of the 120,000-man Army of the Potomac navigated the Rappahannock River and took the colonial town of Fredericksburg, Virginia ... It is well war is so terrible, we would grow too fond ...

The state of Virginia was a center for conflict ... The Battle of Fredericksburg: 11 - 15 December 1862 During the Civil War, ...

and Fredericksburg, Virginia. There was scarcely a family in the South that did not lose a son or brother or father. As with any civil strife, the war was marked by excruciating ironies.

The wounded soldiers above were photographed at a hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia ... casualty of a war he’d volunteered to fight a half-century before. The Civil War killed and injured ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too ... Frank Vizetelly was nearly killed at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862, when a “South Carolinian had a portion of his head ...

Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia attacked Union cavalry blocking ... Indeed, high drama marked the Civil War’s last months. In January, Congress ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing ...