The Battle of Fredericksburg is known as the most disastrous defeat the Federal Army of the Potomac experienced in the American Civil War. The futile assaults by Federal soldiers against the Confedera
The 36th Infantry US Colored Troops unit was composed mainly of former slaves liberated from Union-occupied territories in North Carolina and Virginia. Bryant, a former National Park Service historian
The Chancellorsville Campaign was the true high water mark for both the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac. The campaign would be the Confederates' greatest battle
