Episode 56

The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg

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“Battle of Fredericksburg History: Prospect Hill.” Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park. Last updated July 25, 2015. Accessed at: https://www.nps.gov/frsp/learn/historyculture/hist-fburg-prospect.htm.

Buckingham, O.P. “General McClellan: How He Was Relieved from the Command of the Army of the Potomac, a Statement by General Buckingham.” The Chicago Tribune. September 6, 1875. Accessed at: https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/image/466305175.

Lincoln, Abraham. Civil War Government Orders. Accessed February 1, 2020 at: https://archive.org/details/civilwargovernme00unit/page/n47.

Marvel, William. Burnside. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

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McPherson, James M. Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. New York: Penguin Books, 2008. 

O'Reilly, Francis Augustín. The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.

Pfanz, Donald C. “The Angel of Marye's Heights.” Fredericksburg. September 8, 2001. Accessed at:  https://www.fredericksburg.com/civil_war/the-angel-of-marye-s-heights/article_0927a4fc-231a-5ccf-a380-562d299a6364.html.

Sears, Stephen W., editor. The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1989. 

“Sunken Road/Stone Wall Sector of Fredericksburg Battlefield.” Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park. Last updated July 25, 2015. Accessed at:https://www.nps.gov/frsp/learn/photosmultimedia/sr.htm.