The River of Blood and a Battle Above the Clouds
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Introduction
The beginning of the adventure!!!!
Timeline
of the Fredericksburg Battle
Sept. 22: In the aftermath of the Union strategical success at Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln announces that the Emancipation Proclamation will take effect of Jan. 1, 1863
Oct. 31, 1862: In response to this Union movement, Longstreet's Confederate Corps begins march to Culpeper. Jackson's Corps remains near Winchester.
Nov. 7, 1862: President Lincoln relieves General George McClellan and appoints General Ambrose Burnside to command the Army of the Potomac.
Nov. 12, 1862: General-in-Chief Henry Halleck orders pontoons to be sent to Aquia Creek in Stafford County.
Nov. 17, 1862: Army of the Potomac begins to arrive in Falmouth. Burnside decides to wait for the pontoon trains to arrive before crossing the Rappahannock.
Nov. 19, 1862: The entire Army of the Potomac is now in Falmouth. The other pontoon train leaves Washington. Longstreet's men begin to arrive in Fredericksburg. Burnside's window of opportunity has slammed shut.
Dec. 3, 1862: Jackson's Corps arrives in Fredericksburg area.
Dec. 11, 1862: Union engineers begin building three pontoon bridges. General Barksdale's Mississippians along the riverbank delay the crossing. Union bombardment damages the city. Civilians seek refuge west of town. Late in the afternoon, Union soldiers row across the river and establish a beachhead. After a bloody fight in the streets of Fredericksburg, Barksdale withdraws. Engineers then finish building the bridges.
Dec. 12: Army of the Potomac crosses the river and the soldiers vandalize the city. Burnside decides to make a two-prong attack the next day.
Dec. 13: The main attack at Prospect Hill breaks through a gap in the Confederate line, but Southern reinforcements drive the Federals back after a competitive fight. The Union assaults on the Stone Wall at the base of Marye's Heights are easily repulsed in a bloody disaster.
Dec. 14: Minor skirmishing along the front line. A day of tremendous suffering. Richard Kirkland, a young South Carolinian, performs one of the great humanitarian acts of American history in helping wounded Yankees at great risk to himself.
Dec. 16: Union soldiers go into camp while Confederates reclaim the city and begin the cleanup and burial of the dead.
In this you will learn about the Battle of Gettysburg and the battle of Fredericksburg. You will also learn about two Generals Robert E. Lee and Winfield Scott. Please read over our facts and learn about the our four different facts.,
General Robert E. Lee
He was a career army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. He eventually commanded all Confederate armies as general-in-chief. His victories against numerically superior forces won him enduring fame as an astute military commander. After the war, he urged reconciliation, and spent his final years as president of the college that would come to bear his name. Lee remains an iconic figure of the Confederacy to this day.
Battle of Gettysburg
(July 1 – July 3, 1863), fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was the bloodiest[1] battle of the American Civil War and is frequently cited as the war's turning point. Union Major General George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac decisively defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's second and final invasion of the North.
Battle of Fredrickburg
Fought in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, on December 13, 1862, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War. The Union Army suffered terrible casualties in futile frontal assaults against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city, bringing to an early end their campaign against the Confederate capital of Richmond.
Winfield Scott
He was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army", he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and most historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time. Over the course of his fifty-year career, he commanded forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second Seminole War, and, briefly, the American Civil War, conceiving the Union strategy known as the Anaconda Plan that would be used to defeat the Confederacy.
Activities
General Robert E. Lee:
General Lee was a career army officer and the most successful general of the _____________ forces during the _______________. He eventually commanded all ___________ armies as general-in-chief. His victories against numerically superior forces won him enduring fame as an astute military commander. After the war, he urged reconciliation, and spent his final years as president of the college that would come to bear his name. Lee remains an iconic figure of the Confederacy to this day.
Winfield Scott:
Winfield Scott was a_________________ general, _________, and ___________. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army", he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and most historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time. Over the course of his fifty-year career, he commanded forces in the ___________, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second Seminole War, and, briefly, the American Civil War, conceiving the _________ strategy known as the _________ that would be used to defeat the ____________.
Battle of Gettysburg
He fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the _______________ Campaign, was the bloodiest[1] battle of the American Civil War and is frequently cited as the war's turning point. _________ ________ General George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac decisively defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's second and final invasion of the North.
Battle of Fredericksburg
Fought in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, on __________ 13, 1862, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American ________ ________. The Union Army suffered terrible casualties in futile frontal assaults against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city, bringing to an early end their campaign against the _____________ capital of ______________.
Evaluation
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Total Score 100/100 Your score ___/100
Links
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/nationa l_parks/gett95.jpg
http://www.nps.gov/frsp/fredhist.htm
Conclusion
CONGRATULATIONS!!! You've just finished our web quest! This was to extend your knowledge on the Civil War. These events and dates occurred at the exact point and time that is on the previous web quest. The Civil War was a major turning point in American History.
Credits
This web quest was created by Sarah Suiter, Ashley Tipton, Chelsea Wild and Christian Gordon. Special thanks to our librarian's, and our History teacher, Mrs. Horton.