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History Unplugged Podcast

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 9: The Battle of Fredericksburg

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Following McClellan's disastrous Union loss at Antietam, Lincoln replaced him with Ambrose Burnside, who planned to march to the city of Fredericksburg, getting there before Lee and possibly marching all the way to Richmond. But once they confronted the Confederacy at the battle of Fredericksburg the Federals made 14 total charges that were all repulsed. One Federal general wrote “It was a great slaughter pen. They may as well have tried to take Hell.”

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Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.

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The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, myth busts historical lies, and rediscoveres the forgotten stories that changed our world.

1:15.0

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

1:20.0

Welcome everyone to our next episode in our series on the most important battles in the Civil War.

1:29.0

Last time we looked at the Battle of Antietam, where our beloved McClellan, who was moving at a glacier's pace, finally did something but his results weren't very good.

1:40.0

So we'll talk about what the results were, how this leads into Fredericksburg and other battles.

1:46.0

But just a little bit of background and James will mention more of this, but this is a time of significant transition.

1:53.0

It's transition on the union side, of course, we'll talk about changes in command.

1:57.0

But there's also transition happening on the Confederate side.

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