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​Fredericksburg Home Page Confederate Soldiers


 * The Confederates were outnumbered by the Union,and had just 72,000 people engaged in the fighting at Fredericksburg
 * Confederates had 5,377 casualties in the battle of Fredericksburg, less than half the amount of casualties on the Union side
 * The South suffered 608 people killed, 4,116 wounded, and 653 captured or missing
 * The uniforms that the Confederates wore were made from cotton
 * The uniforms were a brownish gray in color, and they wore short jackets and vests
 * Shoes were hard to get and of poor quality