Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!

Name: Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
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ISBN: 9780807872697

ISBN-10: 0807872695

ISBN-13: 9780807872697

Edition: 2012

Authors: George C. Rable

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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…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.51" tall
Weight: 2.178
Language: English

George C. Rable holds the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. He is author of Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism, The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics, and Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!, which won the Lincoln Prize.



Acknowledgments


Prologue



Armies



Politics



Strategy



Marching



Delay



Camp



History



Discontent



Preparations



Crossing



Orders



Artillery



Breakthrough



Attack



Perseverance



Futility



Retreat



Carnage



Wounds



News



Recrimination



Winter



Freedom



Morale



Mud


Epilogue


Order of Battle


Notes


Bibliography


Index