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Part of American Civil War

Battle of Fredericksburg

December 11–15, 1862 · Fredericksburg, Virginia

Result Confederate victory

Union defeat at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 11-15, 1862: Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac launched futile frontal assaults against Gen. Robert E. Lee's entrenched Confederates, notably at the sunken wall. One of the war's most one-sided battles, with Union casualties more than twice the Confederates'; a visitor described the scene to President Lincoln as butchery.

On the map Contemporaries

Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
George Meade Ambrose Burnside Major General, Commander of the Army of the Potomac Joseph Hooker Major General, Commander of the Center Grand Division Edwin V. Sumner Major General, Commander of the Right Grand Division William Buel Franklin Major General, Commander of the Left Grand Division
Robert E. Lee John Bell Hood Stonewall Jackson Major General, Commander of the Second Corps (right) James Longstreet Lieutenant General, Commander of the First Corps (left)

Strength and losses

Strength
122,009100,007, 106,007, 117,000
Casualties
13,353
Killed
1,2841,350, 1,284
Wounded
9,6009,600, 9,650, 9,600
Missing
1,7691,769, 2,000, 1,769
Strength
78,51372,497, 72,497, 78,000
Casualties
4,576
Killed
5,377,608595, 600, 596
Wounded
4,1164,061, 4,068
Missing
653653, 700, 651

Units

Army of the Potomac III Corps (Union Army) IX Corps (Union Army) V Corps (Union Army) 20th Maine Infantry Regiment Irish Brigade (Union Army) Iron Brigade 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment Union Army 14th Infantry Regiment (United States) 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment 4th Infantry Regiment (United States) 6th Ohio Cavalry Regiment 7th Indiana Infantry Regiment 9th New York Infantry Regiment 1st U.S. Artillery, Battery E
Army of Northern Virginia First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Pickett's Division 11th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 24th Virginia Infantry Regiment 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment 3rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment 5th Virginia Cavalry Regiment

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