Although each had been turned back, those armies remained intact and capable of further action. Confederate armies had been on the move earlier in the fall, invading Kentucky and Maryland. President Abraham Lincoln needed to demonstrate the success of the Union war effort before the Northern public lost confidence in his administration. On December 15, Burnside withdrew his army, ending another failed Union campaign in the Eastern Theater.įurther information: Peninsula Campaign, Seven Days Battles, Northern Virginia campaign, Maryland campaign, Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, and American Civil War James Longstreet's position on Marye's Heights – all were repulsed with heavy losses. Sumner and Joseph Hooker to launch multiple frontal assaults against Lt. Burnside ordered the Right and Center Grand Divisions of major generals Edwin V. Stonewall Jackson to the south, but was finally repulsed.
Franklin was able to pierce the first defensive line of Confederate Lt. On December 13, the Left Grand Division of Maj. Union troops prepared to assault Confederate defensive positions south of the city and on a strongly fortified ridge just west of the city known as Marye's Heights. When the Union army was finally able to build its bridges and cross under fire, direct combat within the city resulted on December 11–12. Bureaucratic delays prevented Burnside from receiving the necessary pontoon bridges in time and Lee moved his army to block the crossings. President Abraham Lincoln.īurnside's plan was to cross the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg in mid-November and race to the Confederate capital of Richmond before Lee's army could stop him. A visitor to the battlefield described the battle as a "butchery" to U.S. It is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the war, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates. Lee, included futile frontal attacks by the Union army on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders along the Sunken Wall on the heights behind the city. Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. The combat, between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Muddy Heights® 2 Free In-App Purchases all unlocked.The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
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