(WDBJ) - The Confederate Army, led by General Robert E. Lee, won the major battle against the Union Army, commanded by General Ambrose Burnside. Burnside had planned a quick attack on Richmond, but ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the ...
Four weeks after his Army of the Potomac absorbed a staggering 13,000 casualties at the Battle of Fredricksburg, General Ambrose Burnside surmised that more combat was the tonic that would improve the ...