Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 (Emerging Civil War)

by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White

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They melted like snow on the ground, one officer said—wave after wave of Federal soldiers charging uphill across an open, muddy plain. Confederates, fortified behind a stone wall along a sunken road, poured a solid hail of lead into them as they charged . . . and faltered . . . and died.

“I had never before seen fighting like that, nothing approaching it in terrible uproar and destruction,”the officer said as he watched the slaughter. “It is only murder now.”

As a result of the carnage, the battle of Fredericksburg is usually remembered as the most...Read more
  • ISBN10 1611211468
  • ISBN13 9781611211467
  • Publish Date 15 April 2013 (first published 19 January 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Savas Beatie
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 168
  • Language English