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This is the battle that was the end of General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of
the North in September 1862. The battle claimed more than 23,000 men killed, wounded, and
missing in one single day, September 17,1862.
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General Ambrose Burnside, Union General, launched a
winter campaign against the Confederate capital, Richmond, by way of Fredericksburg, a strategically important
town on the Rappahannock River.
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