at [email protected] for details. Frontal assaults on an entrenched position rarely work. I get the idea, throwing a massive group of men at the enemy’s main line, designed to overwhelm them for a ...

In December 1862, Union forces launched a massive assault on Confederate defenses at Fredericksburg—only to suffer one of the most lopsided defeats of the Civil War. Bruce Willis Family Makes ...

The NPG's Warren Perry visits the Frederickburg National Military Park and discusses the Battle of Fredericksburg, which took placed on December 13, 1862. Part of our ongoing series commemorating the ...

Citizens of Fredericksburg bore the brunt of the war when their city became the first in America to be “ravaged and bombarded and looted as the Union army approached. There was a civilian exodus that ...

Brigadier General Strong Vincent, a Waterford native, is best known for his heroic defense of Little Round Top at Gettysburg. Vincent's leadership was evident prior to Gettysburg, particularly during ...