The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. The combat, between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee included futile frontal attacks by the Union army on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders along the Sunken Wall on the heights behind the city. It is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the war, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates. A visitor to the battlefield described the battle as a "butchery" to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

00:00 Introduction
01:38 Army Compositions
02:45 The Union Plan
03:08 Battle in Fredericksburg
05:19 The Union loot Fredericksburg
06:26 The Artillery engagement
08:32 The Battle on the Confederate Left
12:08 The Battle for Marye's Heights
15:33 The Heroic deeds of Richard Kirkland
16:10 Aftermath

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