Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective ... General Burnside's campaign at Fredericksburg did not go as planned, in part because the battle introduced obstacles his men had never ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too ... At the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Arthur Lumley, a Dublin-born Irishman working for theNew-York Illustrated News, sketched ...

Ambrose Burnside's roller-coaster military career included early Civil War successes ... easy fording sites out of enemy range. At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Burnside threw away thousands ...