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Battle of Fredericksburg

Confederate Commander

Gen. Robert E. Lee

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Total Engaged: 78,513

Killed: 608

Wounded: 4,116

Captured or Missing: 653

Total Casualties: 5,377

Confederate Officers

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Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson

Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet

Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws

Maj. Gen. Richard H. Anderson

Maj. Gen. John B. Hood

Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill

Maj. Gen. Ambrose P. Hill

Brig. Gen. William N. Pendleton

Brig. Gen. Joseph B. Kershaw

Brig. Gen. Paul J. Semmes

Brig. Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox

Brig. Gen. W. S. Featherston

Brig. Gen. A. R. Wright

Brig. Gen. E. A. Perry

Brig. Gen. E. M. Law

Brig. Gen. Robert Ranson, Jr.

Brig. Gen. Edward L. Thomas

Brig. Gen. James H. Lane

Brig. Gen. James J. Archer

Brig. Gen. W. D. Pender

Brig. Gen. Jubal A. Early

Brig. Gen. Robert F. Hoke

Brig. Gen. William B. Taliaferro

Brig. Gen. E. F. Paxton

Brig. Gen. John R. Jones

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Confederate Order of Battle

I Army Corps

II Army Corps

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Confederate Official Records

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December 11-15, 1862

Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, Virginia

Confederate Victory

National Park Service

The Battle of Fredericksburg

Fredericksburg Battlefield

Battle of Fredericksburg History

The River Crossing

Prospect Hill

Marye's Heights

Final Plan of Attack

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American Battlefield Trust

Fredericksburg

Fredericksburg: An Article

10 Facts: Fredericksburg

After the Crossing: Marye's Heights and Prospect Hill

Fredericksburg - Fighting in the Streets - December 11, 1862

Fredericksburg / Slaughter Pen Fighting / Dec 13, 1862

Fredericksburg: An Article

The True Battle of Fredericksburg

Before the Slaughter

Horror and Heroism at the Slaughter Pen Farm

Map of the Battlefield at Fredericksburg

Fredericksburg / Sunken Road Fighting / Dec 13, 1862

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American History Central

Battle of Fredericksburg

Battle of Fredericksburg Facts

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Warfare History Network

War So Terrible: The Battle of Fredericksburg

Rebel Blunder at Fredericksburg

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Civil War Monitor

Failure at Fredericksburg

Eyewitness to the Battle of Fredericksburg

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Emerging Civil War

"I Should Be Sorry to See Fredericksburg Suffer:" The Battle of Fredericksburg's Impact on the Town's Civilians

A Thousand Words a Battle: Fredericksburg

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Essential Civil War Curriculum

The Battle of Fredericksburg

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Ohio Civil War

Battle of Fredericksburg

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ThoughtCo

Battle of Fredericksburg

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Iron Brigadier

The Pontoon Bridge at the Battle of Fredericksburg

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YouTube

The Battle of Fredericksburg

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Civil War Atlas Maps

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New York Times

December 16, 1862

December 17, 1862

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Pictures 

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Maps

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Harper's Weekly

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Union Commander

Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside

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Total Engaged: 116,683

Killed: 1,284

Wounded: 9,600

Captured or Missing: 1,769

Total Casualties: 12,653

Union Officers

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Maj. Gen. Edwin V. Sumner

Maj. Gen. Darius Couch

Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker

Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin

Maj Gen. George G. Meade

Maj. Gen. William F. Smith

Brig. Gen. Rufus Ingalls

Brig. Gen. Daniel P. Woodbury

Brig. Gen. Henry J. Hunt

Brig. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton

Brig. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock

Brig. Gen. John C. Caldwell

Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Meagher

Brig. Gen. Oliver O. Howard

Brig. Gen. Alfred Sully

Brig. Gen. William H. French

Brig. Gen. Nathan Kimball

Brig. Gen. Orlando B. Wilcox

Brig. Gen. William W. Burns

Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis

Brig. Gen. James Nagle

Brig. Gen. Edward Ferrero

Brig. Gen. George W. Getty

Brig. Gen. George Stoneman

Brig. Gen. David B. Birney

Brig. Gen. John C. Robinson

Brig. Gen. J. H. Hobart Ward

Brig. Gen. Hiram G. Berry

Brig. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles

Brig. Gen. Joseph W. Revere

Brig. Gen. Amiel W. Whipple

Brig. Gen. A. Sander Pratt

Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield

Brig. Gen. Charles Griffin

Brig. Gen. George Sykes

Brig. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren

Brig. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys

Brig. Gen. Erastus B. Tyler

Brig. Gen. Abner Doubleday

Brig. Gen. Solomon Meredith

Brig. Gen. John Gibbon

Brig. Gen. Nelson Taylor

Brig. Gen. W. T. H. Brooks

Brig. Gen. Albion P. Howe

Brig. Gen. Calvin E. Pratt

Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Neill

Brig. Gen. John Newton

Brig. Gen. Charles Devens, Jr.

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Union Order of Battle

Army of the Potomac

Right Grand Division

Center Grand Division

Left Grand Division

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Union Official Records 1 - 68

Union Official Records 69 - 145

Union Official Records 146 - 227

Union Official Records 228 -262

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Ames, John W. "In Front of the Stone Wall at Fredericksburg." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles

          and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National

          Historical Society, 2005. p 122-125

Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1967. p 310-313

Brainer, Wesley. "The Pontoniers at Fredericksburg." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and

          Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society, 2005. p 121-122

​Catton, Bruce. The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952. p 34-66

Commager, Henry Steele. The Blue and The Gray. New York: Fairfax Press, 1982. p 228-250

--------------------------------- The Civil War Archive The History of the Civil War in Documents. New York: Tess Press, 1973.

          p 183-202

Couch, Darius N. "Sumner's "Right Grand Division."". Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and

          Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society, 2005. p 105-120

Cozzens, Peter & Robert I Girardi. The New Annals of the Civil War Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004 p 189-208

Current, Richard N., ed. "Fredericksburg Campaign." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 

          p 637-640

Davis, Burke. JEB Stuart The Last Cavalier. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1957. p 248-249

----------------- They Called Him Stonewall A Life of Lieutenant General T. J. Jackson, C.S.A. Short Hills, NJ: Burford Books,

          1954. p 352-362

Dowdey, Clifford and Louis H. Manarin. The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, p 326-327,

          357-374

Foote, Shelby. The Civil War A Narrative Fredericksburg to Meridian. New York: Vintage Books, 1962. p 20-45

Freeman, Douglas Southall. Lee's Lieutenants Volume 2 Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville. New York: Charles Scribner's

          Sons, 1943. p 333-368

Goolrick, William K. The Civil War Rebels Resurgent Fredereicksburg to Chancellorsville. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books,

          1985. p 31-39, 71-79, 80, 86, 94-97

Hansen, Harry. The Civil War A History. New York: Putnam, 1991. p 278-293

Hawkins, Rush C. "Why Burnside Did Not Renew the Attack at Fredericksburg." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence

          Clough Buel. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887.

          rpt. National Historical Society, 2005. p 126-127

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          Historical Society, 2008. p 360-394

Hartley, Chris J. Confederate General D. H. Hill A Military Life. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2026. p 339-343

Irwin, Richard B. "The Removal of McClellan." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and Leaders of

          the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical Society, 2005.

          p 102-104

Kershaw, J. B. "Kershaw's Brigade at Fredericksburg." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and

          Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society, 2005. p 95

Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippencott, 1896. rpt. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992.

          p 306-321

------------------------ "The Battle of Fredericksburg." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and

          Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society, 2005. p 70-85

McClellan, H. B. The Campaigns of Stuart's Cavalry. Secaucus, NJ: Blue & Grey Press, 1993. p 167-202

McLamb, Lafayette. "The Confederate Left at Fredericksburg." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough

          Buel. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt.

          National Historical Society, 2005. p 86-94

Mason, W. Roy. "Notes of a Confederate Staff-Officer." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and

          Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society, 2005. p 100-101

Moore, J. H. "With Jackson at Hamilton's Crossing." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and

          Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society, 2005. p 139-141

Mosby, John S. "A Bit of Partisan Service." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and Leaders of the

          Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical Society, 2005.

          p 148-151

Owen, William Miller. "A Hot Day on Marye's Heights." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and

          Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society, 2005. p 97-99

Palfrey, F. W. The Antietam and Fredericksburg. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881-1883. rpt. National Historical Society,

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Ransom, Robert. "Ransom's Division at Fredericksburg." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and

          Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society, 2005. p 94-95

Robertson, James I., Jr. Stonewall Jackson The Man, The Soldier, The Legend. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. p 646-664

Sears, Stephen W., ed. The Civil War The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: Library of America, 2012.

          p 640-683, 693-695

Smith, William Farrar. "Franklin's "Left Grand Division"". Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and

          Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society, 2005. p 128-138

Swinton, William. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. Secaucus, NJ: Blue & Grey Press, 1988. p 23.0-266

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------------------- Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992.

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Weymouth, H. G. O. "The Crossing of the Rappahannock by the 19th Massachusetts." ​Johnson, Robert Underwood and

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          1884-1887. rpt. National Historical Society, 2005.

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