Download or read book Fredericksburg Battlefields written by and published by National Park Service Division of Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Civil War battles fought in the Fredericksburg, Virginia area, and the condition of those battlefields today.
Download or read book Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park General Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chancellorsville s Forgotten Front written by Chris Mackowski and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of two overlooked engagements that helped turned the tide of a pivotal Civil War battle. By May of 1863, the stone wall at the base of Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg, Virginia, loomed large over the Army of the Potomac, haunting its men with memories of slaughter from their crushing defeat there the previous December. They would assault it again with a very different result the following spring. This time the Union troops wrested the wall and high ground from the Confederates and drove west into the enemy’s rear. The inland drive stalled in heavy fighting at Salem Church. Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front is the first book to examine Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church and the central roles they played in the final Southern victory. Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have long appreciated the pivotal roles these engagements played in the Chancellorsville campaign, and just how close the Southern army came to grief—and the Union army to stunning success. Together they seamlessly weave their extensive newspaper, archival, and firsthand research into a compelling narrative to better understand these combats, which usually garner little more than a footnote to the larger story of Stonewall Jackson’s march and fatal wounding. Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front offers a thorough examination of the decision-making, movements, and fighting that led to the bloody stalemate at Salem Church, as Union soldiers faced the horror of an indomitable wall of stone—and an undersized Confederate division stood up to a Union juggernaut.
Download or read book Simply Murder written by Chris Mackowski and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Civil War history and guide offers a vivid chronicle of this dramatic yet misunderstood battle, plus invaluable information for battlefield visitors. The battle of Fredericksburg is usually remembered as the most lopsided Union defeat of the Civil War. It is sometimes called “Burnside’s folly,” after Union commander Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside who led the Army of the Potomac to ruin along the banks of the Rappahannock River. Confederates, fortified behind a stone wall along a sunken road, poured a hail of lead into them as they charged. One eyewitness summed it up saying, “it is only murder now.” But the battle remains one of the most misunderstood and misremembered engagements of the war. Burnside started with a well-conceived plan and had every reason to expect victory. How did it go so terribly wrong? Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have worked for years along Fredericksburg’s Sunken Road and Stone Wall, and they’ve escorted thousands of visitors across the battlefield. Simply Murder not only recounts Fredericksburg’s tragic story of slaughter, but includes vital information about the battlefield itself and the insights they’ve learned from years of walking the ground.
Download or read book Where Valor Proudly Sleeps written by Donald C Pfanz and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books discuss in great detail what happened during Civil War battles. This is one of the few that investigate what happened to the remains of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Where Valor Proudly Sleeps explores a battle’s immediate and long-term aftermath by focusing on Fredericksburg National Cemetery, one of the largest cemeteries created by the U.S. government after the Civil War. Pfanz shows how legislation created the National Cemetery System and describes how the Burial Corps identified, collected, and interred soldier remains as well as how veterans, their wives, and their children also came to rest in national cemeteries. By sharing the stories of the Fredericksburg National Cemetery, its workers, and those buried there, Pfanz explains how the cemetery evolved into its current form, a place of beauty and reflection.
Download or read book The Fredericksburg Campaign written by Francis Augustín O'Reilly and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 involved hundreds of thousands of men; produced staggering, unequal casualties (13,000 Federal soldiers compared to 4,500 Confederates); ruined the career of Ambrose E. Burnside; embarrassed Abraham Lincoln; and distinguished Robert E. Lee as one of the greatest military strategists of his era. Francis Augustín O'Reilly draws upon his intimate knowledge of the battlegrounds to discuss the unprecedented nature of Fredericksburg's warfare. Lauded for its vivid description, trenchant analysis, and meticulous research, his award-winning book makes for compulsive reading.
Download or read book Fredericksburg Civil War Sites April 1861 November 1862 written by Noel Garraux Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County National Military Park Virginia written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Tours Fredericksburg written by Randi Minetor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-of-a-kind guide brings you face-to-face with the people and events that shaped the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Download or read book Fredericksburg and Adjacent National Battlefields Memorial Park Association Fredericksburg Virginia written by Fredericksburg and Adjacent National Battlefields Memorial Park Association and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marye s Heights written by Victor Brooks and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredericksburg was one of the most tragic battles of the Civil War. No sector was more hotly contested than the area held by Longstreet's troops and known as Marye's Heights. While the heights seemed impregnable to the charging Union troops, Longstreet's men took heavy casualties and many times felt they were on the point of being overrun. The latest Battleground America volume covers the actions, units and personalities of this key section of the Fredericksburg battlefield and describes in detail the area as it was in 1862 and the national park that occupies the site today.
Download or read book 1862 Fredericksburg written by K. M. Kostyal and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the Civil War battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and profiles some of the key figures involved in what was a decisive victory for the Confederacy.
Download or read book Guide to the Battles of Chancellorsville Fredericksburg written by Jay Luvaas and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide contains remarkable detail on several firsts and rarities for the time period, from crossings under fire and street fighting to now-familiar trench warfare.
Download or read book Fredericksburg and Adjacent National Battlefields Memorial Park Association written by Fredericksburg and adjacent national battlefields memorial park association. [from old catalog] and published by . This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle of Fredericksburg written by James Longstreet and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is written as a first-person account of the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War. Longstreet was a lieutenant general on the Confederate side. This battle was one of the bloodiest of the whole war and certainly extremely important.
Download or read book Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Through Time written by John F. Cummings and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park is a unit of the National Park Service in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and elsewhere in Spotsylvania County, commemorating four major battles in the American Civil War.
Download or read book 99 Historic Images of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Civil War Sites written by Garry E. Adelman and published by Center for Civil War Photo. This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
