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(WDBJ) - The Confederate Army, led by General Robert E. Lee, won the major battle against the Union Army, commanded by General Ambrose Burnside. Burnside had planned a quick attack on Richmond, but ...

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Four weeks after his Army of the Potomac absorbed a staggering 13,000 casualties at the Battle of Fredricksburg, General Ambrose Burnside surmised that more combat was the tonic that would improve the ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the ...