The Battle of Fredericksburg is now over, having been a humiliating defeat for the United States Army. Yet death has visited both North and South. An eyewitness account from a North Carolina Baptist soldier–a member of Reeds Baptist Church–written after the battle, recounts the carnage taking place around him in Confederate ranks on the day…
The Confederate victory at Fredericksburg is evident to all. Commanding strategic locations in and around the city, Southern forces have slaughtered their Northern counterparts thus far, and are prepared to continue the slaughter today. For his part, Union General Ambrose Burnside yet wishes to press his offensive against Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s forces, but…
As the first light of dawn pierces the morning sky, Confederate troops stationed atop Marye’s Heights and behind a stone wall along a sunken road at the base of the hill peer anxiously towards Fredericksburg. The previous day the Federal Army of the Potomac had launched several massive, but unsuccessful, assaults across several hundred yards…