Why Fredericksburg?: 160th Anniversary of Fredericksburg
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- In December of 1862, Union and Confederate troops converged at Fredericksburg, as Ambrose Burnside and Robert E. Lee try to land a blow before months of winter stops the fighting until spring time. Dan Davis and Sarah Kay Bierle set the scene and explain how and why over 200,000 soldiers ended up in this small Virginia city. #Fredericksburgtour
This video is part of our series commemorating the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg. Check out the full series here: • Fredericksburg: 160th ...
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Great job Dan & Sarah...very clear and concise analysis!
Great place - I led a battlefield study to Fredericksburg last March from the UK
Great video. Love the history ❤️
160th? Totally slipped my mind. Drove past Slaughter Pen yesterday and saw Union encampment, realized it was the anniversary.
Nothing will top the 155th when they brought in the bridging unit and we stormed the river in the boats.
Great-Great grandfather's first battle. 17th maine, drummer, 16yrs old.
PS - There were cows walking across the river when Burnside got there. Wagons and artillery problematic, but the infantry and cavalry could have forded.
both sides were at that encampment they had a small skirmish also over on lees hill just beyond behind the airstrip there was a battery firing
@@RP14_Music I've had so much going on the last few weeks I think that was day I realized it was December, LOL.
My great- great grandfather was with Jackson's Virginians defending the high ground against the yankee invaders. It was a glorious victory for Southern arms.
@@jamesellis4664 short lived unfortunately
@@jamesellis4664 I'd submit it was a god awful slaughter of young men because a certain clique of wealthy people couldn't see their way to modify how they were doing business.
I visited marye's heights recently as part of my civil war bucket list, to imagine the rebs tucked away so securely must have been horrifying to the brave yanks who had to fire on then. The bullet ricochet still exist in the original parts of the wall
been here muliple times
The rebs as you call them were very brave also.
@@jamesellis4664 yeah of course. My point is the overwhelming odds the union faced at this point of the battle line required an iron nerve to assault that position.
@@zoanth4 True, same as Picketts charge. I guess that's what happens when they use Napoleonic infantry tactics on a modern battlefield.
@jamesellis4664 precisely. It worked sometimes, but often a bad idea cold harbor too
At Fredericksburg, everyone learned the devastating futility of charging at troops defending behind a stone wall, but half a year later Lee did the exact same thing at Gettysburg.
Gettysburg was a different proposition; lower stonewall & lower elevation topography, than Fredericksburg. Doc Holliday 6153ZZ1451slc
Burnside was a fool for attacking across those fields at the hieghts. It's strange to look over that stone wall now and see lot's of house's. A good spot to visit is Lee's headquarters on Lee's hill, but it's a steep little hike to get up there. There is a couple of bench's on the trail up if you want to take a break.
Heya!! My uncle is down there as a Yankee actor this weekend 😁🖤
Great lecture. Love the little critter running behind the speakers. Thank you.
Burnside's plan was a good one. Only the very late delivery of the pontoon bridging equipment led to this disaster. So why was he relieved by Lincoln? This was more Halleck's defeat than Burnside's.
For Union troops, it wasn't a battle, it was outright murder by the Confederates. 6 months later at Chancellorsville was Lee's greatest win.
That is actually really impressive thay Jackson marched that far and made it in time
My great grandfather was Wounded at Fredericksburg and sent home, he was with the 48th Pennsylvania.
love my city!!
Great knowledge. I always love ❤hearing history.
Great Video. Where is the slack water irrigation canal that was upstream from Fredericksburg? Does this feature still exist today?
I work right behind that green church steeple at Fahrenheit 132 on William Street. If anyone is in town visiting and wants the best steak for miles around, come and see us! 😋
Thanks for posting this!
It's so crazy knowing that I live in a city so pivotal as Fredericksburg. Also crazy to think that below my feet could have been a location of a major battle where people lost their lives for what they believed in.
thanks
Always a great video with Sarah
Sarah rocks! 👊🏼🤠
SAVE OUR BATTLEFIELDS AMERICA 🇺🇸
Good One.
I live on Ferry Farm about a mile from here. I'd love to do a full walking tour.
Interesting. I appreciate the history lesson.
We had a battle at Lewisburg wv plus a few other notable places around here
Great stuff.
Fredricksburg is a great place to walk, I should know since I live close by
Sensational video. 😘
i live about a mile to the west from where your standing
A chicken couldn't survive that field...It's well that war is so horrible or we would get to fond of it...
I love Sarah ❤ Garth
Great job on explaining the set up to the upcoming battle of Fredericksburg. Dan and Sarah, be advised that you need to perhaps remained fixed in place when providing your narrative. You both are tending to rock back and forth during your presentation, which tends to detract from what is being said. Overall, I enjoyed the video.
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Fredericksburg was the one battle that should have been called off .
Politic and military objective goals play Into this campaign... The Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac is the target
Would experts agree this was the Union's worst defeat of the war?
I believe so
Maybe, The charge at cold harbor could be up there too though.
@@BenFaffler certainly up there for sure. I think Grant had better reasons for launching the final assaults at cold harbor than Burnside did for almost the entirety of Fredricksburg. Just my opinion
NO, Cold Harbor or Chickamaugua
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How many civil war battles are won by the "defending" side?
Gettysburg, Meade defending = won
Fredricksburg, Lee defending= won
and more i guess.....
Or is it just not right what i'm saying? (open to all arguements)
Distracted by the skunks.
There in 2012 for 150 anniversary freezey cold
That's why I never go to the anniversaries....too cold!😆
The pontoon arrived too late caray!!! Aop there then delay the comes Jackson
Yep