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Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862. #343475692
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Fredericksburg. Map showing the disposition of forces in the American battle of December 11 - 15, 1862. The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11â15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. The combat between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee included futile frontal attacks by the Union army on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders along the Sunken Wall on the heights behind the city.