Faces of Union Soldiers at Fredericksburg

Matthew Borders

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2022
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781439675120
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

Look into the eyes of these soldiers and see the faces of those who dared to stare into the face of Death.

The Battle of Fredericksburg, fought December 11-15, 1862, is often remembered for the seemingly futile attacks by the Army of the Potomac against dug in Confederates on Marye's Heights. Less well understood is the fighting south of the heights on what has become known as Slaughter Pen Farm. In this work the images of thirty Union soldiers are published for the first time. They give a face and history to those men who struggled across that bloody landscape, as well as to those that charged up the slope of Marye's Heights into Confederate fire.

Authors Matthew Borders and Joseph Stahl introduce you to these men, their stories and their sacrifice on the bullet swept battlefield of Fredericksburg.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Maps. Fredericksburg Campaign
• Introduction, by Frank A. O’Reilly
• 1. General Meade’s Division Hits the Slaughter Pen
• 2. General Birney’s Division: The Second Attack on the Slaughter Pen
• 3. General French’s Division Faces the Stone Wall at Marye’s Heights
• 4. General Sturgis’ Division: The Second Assault on Marye’s Heights
• 5. General Howard’s Division: The Next Wave Advances Out of Fredericksburg
• 6. General Humphreys’ Division’s Twilight Attack on the Stone Wall
• Epilogue
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Authors