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General Ambrose Burnside was given command of the Army of the Potomac in late 1862 and was expected to quickly move against Richmond. In November of 1862, he marched south through Virginia, reaching Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock River on November 17th. Meeting only a light Confederate force, Burnside waited for pontoon bridges to arrive before finally crossing the river on December 11th and taking the town. During the nearly month long delay, General Robert E. Lee was able to move his 78,000 man army into positions above Fredericksburg.
On December 13th, Burnside ordered numerous assaults along the Confederate line. Each was easily turned back. These attacks included the bloody assault at the "sunken road" where rebel soldiers picked off Northern troops until their bodies literally filled the deeply entrenched road. Burnside gave up the fight and ordered his battered forces back across the Rappahannock on December 15th. Soon after he arrived back in Washington, he was relieve of command.
The original steel engraving was created to accompany Evert Duyckink's "National History of the War for the Union." This was an ongoing record of the Civil War that was sold by subscription in the mid 1860s. Long Island painter and engraver, Alonzo Chappel created the original from which this piece was made.
This piece illustrates the building of the pontoon bridge, as Union troops slowly come ashore near bombed out buildings along the river. One of those building the bridge is seen falling, apparently struck by sniper fire that came from many of Fredericksburg's windows
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