The Fredericksburg Campaign
Subtitle: Decision on the Rappahannock (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: March 20, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807821930
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Civil war; Military History - U.S. Civil War; History; History - Military / War; History: American; USA; Reference; Military - General; United States - Civil War; Civil War; Ambrose Burnside; Robert E. Lee; Marye's Heights; William Marvel; Alan T. Nolan; Carol Reardon; Gary W. Gallagher; A. Wilson Greene; George C. Rable; William A. Blair; History / Military / United States; United States - General; Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fre; Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862
First sentence: It is good to begin where the Fredericksburg campaign began, as George B. McClellan turned over the Army of the Potomac to Ambrose E. Burnside in that tent near Retortown.