
Simply Murder
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The battle of Fredericksburg is usually remembered as the most lopsided Union defeat of the Civil War. It is sometimes called "Burnside's folly," after Union commander Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside who led the Army of the Potomac to ruin along the banks of the Rappahannock River. Confederates, fortified behind a stone wall along a sunken road, poured a hail of lead into them as they charged. One eyewitness summed it up saying, "it is only murder now."
But the battle remains one of the most misunderstood and misremembered engagements of the war. Burnside started with a well-conceived plan and had every reason to expect victory. How did it go so terribly wrong?
Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have worked for years along Fredericksburg's Sunken Road and Stone Wall, and they've escorted thousands of visitors across the battlefield. Simply Murder not only recounts Fredericksburg's tragic story of slaughter, but includes vital information about the battlefield itself and the insights they've learned from years of walking the ground.
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- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- List of Maps
- Touring the Battlefield
- Acknowledgments
- PHOTO CREDITS
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER ONE: THE CAMPAIGN
- CHAPTER TWO: CHATHAM
- CHAPTER THREE: THE MIDDLE CROSSING
- CHAPTER FOUR: THE UPPER CROSSING
- CHAPTER FIVE: THE OCCUPATION
- CHAPTER SIX: THE SLAUGHTER PEN
- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE GALLANT PELHAM
- CHAPTER EIGHT: THE BREAKTHROUGH
- CHAPTER NINE: PROSPECT HILL
- CHAPTER TEN: BERNARD'S CABINS
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: TELEGRAPH HILL
- CHAPTER TWELVE: THE SUNKEN ROAD
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: "WAR SO TERRIBLE..."
- POSTSCRIPT: CHRISTMAS ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK
- APPENDIX A: THE SECOND BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG BY CHRIS MACKOWSKI
- APPENDIX B: FREDERICKSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY BY DONALD C. PFANZ
- APPENDIX C: THE JEWEL ON THE RAPPAHANNOCk BY KRISTOPHER D. WHITE
- APPENDIX D: CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE: CIVILIANS AT FREDERICKSBURG BY RYAN T. QUINT
- APPENDIX E: THE FRONT LINE OF EMANCIPATION: SLAVERY AT FREDERICKSBURG BY STEWARD HENDERSON & KATHLEEN LOGOTHETIS THOMPSON
- APPENDIX F: PRESERVING THE SLAUGHTER PEN FARM (AN EXCERPT FROM FIGHTING THE SECOND CIVIL WAR) BY BOB ZELLER
- APPENDIX G: FREDERICKSBURG IN MEMORY BY CHRIS MACKOWSKI
- ORDER OF BATTLE
- SUGGESTED READING
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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