9441 x 7353 px | 79,9 x 62,3 cm | 31,5 x 24,5 inches | 300dpi
Ubicazione:
Fredericksburg, VA, United States
Altre informazioni:
Art from 1888. Crossing the Rappahannock in the morning of Dec. 13' 1862, under comd. of Gen's Burnside, Sumner, Hooker & Franklin. The Battle of Fredericksburg, fought in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, from December 11 to December 15, 1862, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War. The Union Army suffered terrible casualties in futile frontal assaults on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city, bringing to an early end their campaign against the Confederate capital of Richmond.
