56: The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg
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The Battle of Fredericksburg
Not a single Union man of the 14 brigades involved in this slaughter get within 50 yards of the stone wall at Telegraph Road. Between the fighting at Marie's heights and below the town, Bobby Lee's 75,000 strong army of Northern Virginia suffered 5,309 casualties. A few weeks later, in January 1863, Ambrose leads his army to another point on the Rappahannock River, called Binks Ford, with hopes of still charging down to Richmond. Instead, his army gets stuck in thick mud caused by torrential rain. And I kid you not, Confederates put up signs along the river, reading, quote, Yanks, if you can't place your pontoons
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