Fredericksburg+Battlefield



Burnside chose to move extremely and unordinarily slow. When Lee saw this, he told his troops to move to the city of Fredericksburg. Burnside decided to go directly across the river to the city of Fredericksburg. He had the engineers build six ponton bridges. But then they became under heavy fire by the confederate sharpshooters. Burnside sent boats across the river to try to stop the sharpshooters, but for the most part this failed miserably. Some artillery cleared the buildings that were close to the river. Finally when the real battle began it was 8:30 AM on December 13th. For two hours there was a very dense fog that prevented any fighting and slowed the progress of all armies. Six more Union divisions were sent in one at a time, wich made a total of sixteen charges individually.

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