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In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we delve into the catastrophic Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg. General Burnside’s relentless assaults against Confederate ...
Last month, experts finished unearthing, in the basement of a long-vanished house, a trove of artifacts that appears to date from the Civil War's Battle of Fredericksburg — 150 years ago next month.
John Hennessy, Chief Historian with the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, talked about civilians in Fredericksburg, Virginia during the Civil War, and how they dealt with the ...
EmbedVideo(676, 482, 304); Fredericksburg, Va. | As part of a Memorial Day tradition, more than 15,000 luminaries were set up over the weekend at Fredericksburg Battlefield to represent each of ...
More than 100,000 American casualties resulted from four major Civil War battles that took place in and around the city: The Battle of Fredericksburg, fought on Dec. 13, 1862; the Battle of ...
Reenactors commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s Battle of Fredericksburg, a bloody defeat for Union forces. On Saturday, participants recreated the part of the battle that saw ...
They refought the Civil War's Battle of Fredericksburg Saturday, a few days shy of its 150th anniversary. There was no bloodshed, of course, but hundreds of reenactors like Prasse, 26, of Columbia ...
Citizens of Fredericksburg bore the brunt of the war when their city became the first in America to be “ravaged and bombarded and looted as the Union army approached. There was a civilian exodus ...
Last month, experts finished unearthing, in the basement of a long-vanished house, a trove of artifacts that appears to date from the Civil War's Battle of Fredericksburg — 150 years ago next month.