Civil War Combat: Massive Assault at the Battle Of Fredericksburg (S1, E2) | Full Episode
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On December 13, 1862, Union General Ambrose Burnside mounted a massive, yet futile frontal assault on Robert E. Lee’s Confederate troops outside of Fredericksburg, Virginia. See more in Season 1, Episode 2, “The Battle Of Fredericksburg.”
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Those were some brave men.
All Burnside did was give the Confederate soldiers thousands of pairs of badly needed shoes and thousands of warm pants and blankets. Compliments of the United States army.
The ironic event is that the Confederates encountered the same situation at Gettysburg only this time the roles were reversed (Day 3) with the same outcome!
Ships biscuits. A “food” so hard that it’s bullet proof.
Why do you have two separate videos of this series both titled season 1 episode 2?
wonder if im related to thomas cobb?
Ambrose Burnside is buried 5 min from my house in Providence, RI. Been there many times
This Is the History Channel not catching alligators!???
General Ambrose E. Burnside FAILED to grasp the age-old military adage:
No plan, no matter HOW well thought out, well detailed for every CONCEIVABLE contingency, NEVER, EVER SURVIVES FIRST (1st.) CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY!!!!!!
SMFH!!!!!!
WOW!! FREAKING WOW!!! What Sgt. Kirkland had done, bringing water to HIS SWORN ENEMY, SOMETHING HE DIDN’T HAVE TO DO. BUT, DID IT, ANYWAY, was the most humane thing that, unless I’m mistaken, RARELY TOOK PLACE!!! I’m vitally impressed with his act of unconditional love and, kindness. Awesome, extremely awesome!!!!
Napoleons ghost somewhere screaming in french about Aspern
Why is no mention made of the nearly 13,000 Federal casualties? Why skip Chancellorsville, in essence, which was Lee’s greatest battle? Too little Confederate information given. Objectivity?
Saved by a biscuit wow that’s incredible
What kills me is Lee turned around 6 months later and did the same thing to an entrenched Union line on high ground at Gettysburg. It was such a lapse in otherwise extremely sound judgment. I can only surmise he was still reeling from the loss of Jackson.
Do you guys have season 2 available on DVD?
Who’s watching on the Anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Today Marks the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg where The army of the Potomac hit Rock bottom
Please bring this show back…
The Union were savage for yelling “Fredericksburg.” 😂😂😂
I can just imagine some young future WWI general watching this battle and thinking “I bet I could do this better than Burnside”
I remember when this was series was on history Channel. The Good days of the channel before American pickers and ancient aliens and other shows
All I see is the incompetence of the union generals though. If Meade had been supported properly when he broke Jackson’s lines, the union forces probably would have won the battle
Pontificate all day about the evils of slavery, brother against brother, ask yourself if Richard E. Lee you would choose as a judge, or if you would rather force feed again a retired sociopath Lithium AGAIN (American.ishPseudoIntellectualGuesstimationCorporation) .
I’m a 20yr vet and that type of warfare is devastating on both sides I give general Thomas Jackson the honor of the greatest General of the USA in history
There was an Antique warehouse on the banks of the river that I visited. At the time of the battle Confederate sharpshooters were inside that building firing at the Union Engineers. The union cannons responded and probably drove them out. The manager of that building, which at the time was empty, showed me the cannon ball and rifle shot holes at various points in the building. They STILL looked fresh…like they had occurred that morning!
The Army of Northern Virginia never ransacked towns when they invaded the Union. General Lee himself ordered his army to conduct itself properly.
A testimony to how poorly history is taught that Fredericksburg is often portrayed as a one prong maryes heights battle like Gettysburg day 2 was only Little Round Top
Why wouldn’t you build during the cannonade 🤔
Lee wanted to defend at the North Anna River further south it was Jefferson Davis who told Lee to set up his defense at the Rappahannock.
Excellent documentary. Real history.
I like how the union thought the confederates would just sit there and watch them build the bridge lol
Sad that you keep throwing men in like that…wasting them for a dumb plan…generals are just people like the rest of us, not smarter or better…just a higher rank so they can sacrifice humans at will.…sad, sad ‚sad…
my great great uncle won a congressional medal of honor during the second battle and seen his 20th birthday on July second during the battle of Gettysburg. he was a corporal for company B 1st Minnesota but was transferred from company K they say he might’ve been present at Antitem
Yankees doing the same thing to their oppressed that they whined about what was done upon them? Definition of irony and shows the true side of evil. God Bless the South and shows who will be on top in the end.
Will anyone suggest a book which focuses on the gruesome errors engaged in by the northern generals and then also errors made by the southern generals, or simply a book it focuses on decisions which led to the outcomes we are all familiar with. Fredericksburg must rates near the top of those military disasters.
What was Gen. Burnside thinking? This HORRIBLE EXCUSE for a General kept on sending his own Troops, wave after wave, up against an unbelievably strong Confederate position, that was firing at them, and absolutely shattering their ranks! Gen. Burnside became so stubborn, that he wouldn’t relent…and thousands of Union Soldiers lost their lives, because of it! Needless to say, a day or so later, the Union Army withdrew in defeat. It was yet another Union defeat, that President Lincoln had to endure.
A little less than Seven Months later, though, Gen. Lee would have this same lesson to learn, at Gettysburg.
A very good presentation.
Makes me feel proud to be a South Carolinian
First off, it is not “almost 20 miles” from Warrenton to Fredericksburg, It’s closer to 35.
Second, when Burnside opened up with 160 or so artillery pieces, it was not just to dislodge Barksdale’s Mississippians along the river.
The whole town was shelled, in the knowledge that most of the homes they bombarded contained old or infirm civilians and slaves.
For one minute, on the 150th anniversary of the battle, that bombardment was recreated. It was an overwhelming, horrific, constant, steady noise, unlike what we see and hear in documentaries.
The Union soldiers looted the town and destroyed what was not damaged by the bombardment or combat.
Third, the makers of these documentaries need to STOP using actors to imitate a Southern accent. It sounds comical, even when they try to tone it down like the guy doing McLaws.
Good grief, get a native-born Southerner from the same area as the person you are portraying to read the script.
I lived at 811 Hanover St., 513, 514, and 515 Willis St., all on that battlefield.
The ground is still full of artifacts about 10 or so inches down.
I had a next-door neighbor on Willist St. who was digging in his yard and found a necklace with many gemstones in it.
Most likely it was looted from the home of a wealthy person, but the soldier who did the looting died on that battlefield, not far from Sunken Road.
The National Park Service encroached on Sunken Road and finally got it from the city.
They ripped up the road, deciding on making it look as authentic as possible.
They wanted to make it muddy, like when the battle was fought.
Of course the same dirt was there, but the NPS spent money on studies to figure out what the ground looked like, even though they had the real thing right in front of them.
Once the studies were done, they came up with some sort of recipe for clay, sand and topsoil, which they mixed and poured all over the real thing.
Union officers make me so mad! They were such cowards compared to the south’s.
The unfortunate part of the pontoon bridges not arriving in time had a major impact on the battle, but this is how battles were fought in this time. There were no tanks, airpower, or even machine guns, just musket rifles, some artillery and a little bit of calvary.
Funny how General Lee did basically the exact same thing at Gettysburg lol
Want to trade a lame horse for general Burnside? Lol 😂
Civil wars throughout history have been brutal, ugly, murderous and most dangerous of all “passion”to kill and develop to a NEED to kill
I enjoyed the episode but found the ommision of John Pelham’s action to delay the union army pretty glaring. I also don’t understand how they could spend so much time on Richard Kirkland without once referring to him as “The Angel of Marye’s Heights” which is what history remembers him as.
The Lee sends 14000 troops to cross open fields in Gettysburg! Longstreet tried to warn lee saying the federals have the stone wall like we had in Fredericksburg!
Weird correction but the distance from warrenton to fredericksburg has never been 20 miles apart. Alexa says 33 miles as the crow flies, and its over 45 minutes by car now. I fricken wish man, i’d have saved so much gas commuting if that were true.