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Tag Archives: Battle of Fredericksburg
Cavalry Along the Rappahannock
150 years ago today there was a lot of information in The New-York Times about the situation near Fredericksburg, Virginia, where the Confederates under General Lee and General Burnside’s Union army faced each other on either side of the Rappahannock … Continue reading
Pressure pointed
Counting the reasons not to go into winter quarters 150 years ago this week citizens in Richmond could read this recap of the New York Herald’s case for immediate attacks by the federal armies. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December … Continue reading
Enemy Campfires Increasing
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1862: From Gen. Burnside’s Army. FALMOUTH, Va. Nov. 26. It is expected the railroad will be finished to-morrow from Acquia Creek to the Rappahannock, opposite Fredericksburg. The bridge over Potomac Creek was … Continue reading
“visited by this fiendish invasion”
150 years ago today the Richmond Daily Dispatch reported on Union General Burnside’s demand that Fredericksburg, Virginia surrender or else risk being bombed. The Dispatch report stated that the Yankees lobbed a few shells toward the railroad depot where a … Continue reading
Union Jack Flew Over Fredericksburg
Well, leastways over one of its houses From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 7, 1862: Seward Backed out again. –In Fredericksburg the British flag was pulled down by Lincoln’s soldiers in front of the British Vice consul’s door. The Consul, … Continue reading
