As most of the 120,000-man Army of the Potomac navigated the Rappahannock River and took the colonial town of Fredericksburg ... one battle alone. It was the most lopsided battle in the war ...

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow ... At the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Arthur Lumley, a Dublin-born Irishman working for theNew-York Illustrated News ...

Ambrose Burnside's roller-coaster military career included early Civil War successes ... easy fording sites out of enemy range. At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Burnside threw away thousands ...

Other papers examine the Union looting of Fredericksburg ... Upon the Fields of Battle, a volume in the LSU series “Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War”, is a valuable read ...