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Fredericksburg   /frˈɛdrɪksbərg/  /frˈɛdərɪksbərg/   Listen
Fredericksburg

noun
1.
A town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River.
2.
An important battle in the American Civil War (1862); the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee.  Synonym: Battle of Fredericksburg.



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"Fredericksburg" Quotes from Famous Books



... have dared to take, and when he had assumed these, his mighty will forbade him to sink under the load. The braying of bitter critics, the obloquy of men who should have supported him, the shots from behind, dismayed him no more than did Burnside's cannon at Fredericksburg. On he pressed, stout as a Titan, relentless as fate. What time bravest hearts failed at victory's delay, this Dreadnaught rose to his best, and furnished courage for ...
— America First - Patriotic Readings • Various
... Fredericksburg field-trains were for the first time in the history of the war used on the battle-field, under the fire of the enemy's batteries. The movements to be made on the day of that battle were of the first magnitude. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various
... Porter paralyzed the Southern line of advance; and on the Peninsula, at Fredericksburg, at Resaca and Chancellorsville, Major-General Daniel Butterfield met in arms many of the men who listened to Hardin's gibes as to the ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage
... in the success of our great men. In 1785 he married a daughter of Peter Kortright, a lady of refinement and culture. He, being inelligible for the next three years according to the laws, settled in Fredericksburg. ...
— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis
... lumbermen. Those came out of the coal-shafts of Pennsylvania. Side by side in one great cause, consecrated through fire and storm and darkness, brothers in peril, on their way home from Chancellorsville and Kenesaw Mountain and Fredericksburg, in lines that ...
— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter


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