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Simply Murder - The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 (Paperback)
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Simply Murder - The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 (Paperback)
Series: Emerging Civil War Series
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They melted like snow on the ground, one officer said-wave after
wave of Federal soldiers charging uphill across an open, muddy
plain. Confederates, fortified behind a stone wall along a sunken
road, poured a solid hail of lead into them as they charged . . .
and faltered . . . and died. "I had never before seen fighting like
that, nothing approaching it in terrible uproar and
destruction,"the officer said as he watched the slaughter. "It is
only murder now." As a result of the carnage, the battle of
Fredericksburg is usually remembered as the most lopsided Union
defeat of the war."Burnside's folly," it's been called-named after
the Union commander Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside who led the Army of
Potomac to ruin along the banks of the Rappahannock River. But the
battle of Fredericksburg remains one of the most misunderstood and
misremembered engagements of the war. Burnside started with a
well-conceived plan and had every reason to expect victory. How did
it go so terribly wrong? Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D.
White have worked for years along Fredericksburg's Sunken Road and
Stone Wall, and they've taken thousands of visitors across the
battlefield. In Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg,
December 13, 1862, they not only recount Fredericksburg's tragic
story of slaughter, they also share information about the
battlefield itself and the insights they've learned from years of
walking the ground. Simply Murder can be enjoyed in the comfort of
one's living room or used as a guide on the battlefield itself. It
is part of the new Emerging Civil War Series which offers
compelling, easy-to-read overviews of some of the Civil War's most
important stories. Each volume features masterful storytelling
richly enhanced with hundreds of photos, illustrations, and maps.
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