Military situation
In November 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln needed to demonstrate the success of the Union war effort before the Northern public lost confidence in his administration.

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Union
Burnside organized his Army of the Potomacinto three so-called grand divisions, organizations

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Crossing the Rappahannock, December 11–12
Union engineers began to assemble six pontoon bridgesbefore dawn on December 11, two just north of the town center, a third on the southern end of town, and three farther south, near

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Casualties
The Union army suffered 12,653 casualties (1,284 killed, 9,600 wounded, 1,769 captured/missing). Two

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The Battle of Fredericksburg was depicted in the 2003 film Gods and Generals, based on the novel of the same name, a prequel of The Killer Angels from which the earlier film Gettysburg was adapted. Both the novel and film focused primarily on the disastrous charges on

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• Virginia portal
• American Civil War portal
• Armies in the American Civil War
• Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln
• Bibliography of Ulysses S. Grant

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The Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park was established in 1927 under the War Department and transferred to the National Park Servicein 1933. It consists of more

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