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Battle of Fredericksburg
The
Battle of Fredericksburg
was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around
Fredericksburg, Virginia
, between General
Robert E. Lee
's
Confederate
Army of Northern Virginia
and the
Union
Army of the Potomac
, commanded by
Major General
Ambrose Burnside
. The Union Army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the
American Civil War
, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates.
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