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On this date 159 years ago...
Posted on 11/15/21 at 8:35 pm
Posted on 11/15/21 at 8:35 pm
Major General Ambrose Burnside and his Union Army of the Potomac embarked upon what would become known as the Fredericksburg campaign. The 120,000 men which he commanded would eventually steal a march on Robert E. Lee and his 75,000-man Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, arriving in front of the town of Fredericksburg with nothing but the Rappahannock River standing in their way.
However, the plan would start to spiral out of control when the War Department inexplicably misplaced the pontoon bridges Burnside would need to cross his army to the Confederate side of the river. This gave Lee ample time to react and re-deploy his army on the heights behind Fredericksburg. This directly led to one of the worst defeats in American military history. And it all began 159 years ago today.
Major General Ambrose Burnside - the second commanding officer of the Army of the Potomac
However, the plan would start to spiral out of control when the War Department inexplicably misplaced the pontoon bridges Burnside would need to cross his army to the Confederate side of the river. This gave Lee ample time to react and re-deploy his army on the heights behind Fredericksburg. This directly led to one of the worst defeats in American military history. And it all began 159 years ago today.
Major General Ambrose Burnside - the second commanding officer of the Army of the Potomac
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Posted on 11/15/21 at 8:38 pm to RollTide1987
Name checks the frick out.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 8:39 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 11/15/21 at 8:46 pm to ducktale
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Name checks the frick out.
Yep. That’s where the term came from
Posted on 11/15/21 at 8:48 pm to RollTide1987
I thought this was going to be an aggy championship thread
Posted on 11/15/21 at 8:53 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 11/15/21 at 9:18 pm to ducktale
That’s where the term “sideburns” originated.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 9:25 pm to RollTide1987
Burnside ordered a frontal attack on Lee's troops, who were dug in atop a hill so steep it was almost a cliff. The result was a slaughter.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 9:32 pm to Jim Rockford
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Burnside ordered a frontal attack on Lee's troops, who were dug in atop a hill so steep it was almost a cliff. The result was a slaughter
Yet, Lee forgot this outcome on 7/3/63
Posted on 11/15/21 at 11:00 pm to RollTide1987
depicted well in Gods and Generals
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