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…
Today, famous Confederate spy Belle Boyd is captured by Federal authorities and imprisoned in the Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC. Just eighteen years old, Boyd had captivated Federal officers with her charm while supplying important military intelligence to General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and his forces in the Shenandoah Valley. Jackson had penned a personal…