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Fredericksburg I Virginia December 11-15, 1862
 Burnside Ambrose Burnside, the Union general, was a major player on the Civil War stage from the first
clash at Bull Run until the final summer of the war. He led a corps or army during most of this time and played important roles in various theaters of the war.
The Battle of Fredericksburg would unfold in a natural amphitheater bounded on the east by the Rappahannock River and on the west by the line of hills fortified by General Robert E. Lee. When Jackson's men arrived from downstream, CSA General Longstreet sidled his corps to the north,
defending roughly five miles of Lee's front. He mounted guns at Strong points such as Taylor's Hill, Marye's Heights, Howison Hill, and Telegraph (later Lee's) Hill, the Confederate command post. "Old Pete's" five divisions of infantry supported his artillery at the base of the slopes.
On November 14, 1862, Union General 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. General 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.
General Meade's division, on the Union left flank, briefly penetrated Stonewall 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.
The 6th. Maine Infantry penetrated the Confederate lines at this point
Confederate dead behind a stone wall
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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 Major General Joseph Hooker in January 1863.
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On May 1, 1863 General Robert E. Lee left Major General Jubal A. Early's division to hold Fredericksburg, while marching with the rest of the army to meet Hooker's main offensive thrust at Chancellorsville. On May 3, the Union VI Corps under Sedgwick, reinforced by John Gibbon's II Corps division, having crossed the Rappahannock River, assaulted and carried the Confederate
entrenchments on Marye's Heights. The outnumbered Confederates withdrew and regrouped west and southeast of town.
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