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“Give Them the Cold Steel!” General Andrew Humphreys at Fredericksburg, Virginia — December 1862

“Give Them the Cold Steel!” General Andrew Humphreys at Fredericksburg, Virginia — December 1862

by Robert Plumb | Dec 2, 2021 | Uncategorized

The Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia in December, 1862, was to have been the first step in the Federal plan to seize the Confederate capital in Richmond. Senior level officers in the Union Army were convinced that their troops would be spending a victorious...

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