The Battle of Fredericksburg

In the first year of the American Civil War, the battle of Fredericksburg entered a long list of Potomac troops' failures. After the antitam fight, the Union army got the opportunity to defeat Lee's army. However, after the battle of September 17, 1862, people in the north were shocked by the escape of Lee and Major General George B. McClellan was shocked by Lee's follow-up and general J. E. B delays . Stuart's bold cavalry attacked Pennsylvania near Gettysburg (October 12 - October 1862).

The Eastern Virginia Army - the best Federal Army Group at the Eastern Theater - succeeded in fighting in Fredericksburg in December 1862 and Chancellers' Building in May 1863, and in September 1862 at Antitam Creek I was hit. . They keep pushing the north and continuing to gain power. In contrast, Potomac's army is fighting a tough personal fight as morale shifts between high and low evils. Joseph Hooker of Major League was dismissed to Meade in the first three days of Gettysburg and led "Freedicksburg 's Only Successful Alliance Attack". He took over the troops that had hardly received troops. As Mr. Guelzo pointed out, "People may not like Mead's sulfur method, but no one can kill contempt for this man's physical dangers."

During the battle of Chanceliersville, Virginia in May 1863, before the attack on the second Mary Heights in the Battle of Fredericksburg, the 6th Corps of Potomac Army soldiers were in the trench. This photo (library library # B - 157) was marked as erroneously shot in the siege of Petersburg, Virginia in 1864. When Lee had triumph at the intersection of Chancellorsville, he received alarming news. Major General John Sedgwick broke through the Southern Front of Fredericksburg and headed to Chancelliersville. On the evening of May 2, after Jackson's side attack, Hook ordered Sedgwick to Fredericksburg's Rapha Hanok, and immediately at Chancelliersville "Pass this time when I received this order". I will walk your march on the road until you contact him to attack and destroy the potential you may encounter on the road. "Lee placed a relatively small unit in Fredericksburg and ordered Brig.

In January 1863, after the battle of Fredericksburg and humiliating mud in March, the Potomac troops were increasingly abandoned and the morale fell. Major General Ambrose Burnside decided to do a massive purification of the leadership of the Potomac Army and eliminated some of the generals who thought he was the cause of the Fredericksburg disaster. Indeed, without Congressional approval, he has no authority to fire anyone. I can foresee that cleaning of Burnside can not go anywhere and he ordered President Abraham Lincoln to resign from the Potomac Army. He even suggested to resign entirely from the military, but the president persuaded him to stay in the western play where he became commander of the Ohio Command, and transfer him.