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Union
Casualties: 12,653
Confederate Casualties:
4,201
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Statistical Source: EACW
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The Battle of Fredericksburg: On December 13, almost
three months after Robert
E. Lee began his withdrawal from Sharpsburg, McClellan's
successor, Ambrose
Burnside, managed to bring him to battle again,
at Fredericksburg, Virginia. From the top of Marye's
Heights, east of town, Lee could see the Chatham Mansion,
where thirty years before he had courted his wife. It
was Burnside's headquarters now, and from it the Union
commander ordered his men to assault the impregnable
center of Lee's line.
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