Second Battle of Marye's Heights Second Fredericksburg |
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Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Chancellorsville Campaign
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VI Corps, II Corps, Army of the Potomac
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Early's Division Barksdale's Brigade
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On May 1, Gen. Robert E. Lee left Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early’s division to hold Fredericksburg, while marching with the rest of the army to meet Hooker’s main offensive thrust at Chancellorsville. On May 3, the Union VI Corps under Sedgwick, reinforced by John Gibbon’s II Corps division, having crossed the Rappahannock River, assaulted and carried the Confederate entrenchments on Marye’s Heights. The outnumbered Confederates withdrew and regrouped west and southeast of town. (NPS summary)
| Chancellorsville Campaign, April-May 1863 |
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| Battles of the American Civil War: 1863 |
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| | Eastern Theater | | | | Western Theater | | | | Trans-Mississippi Theater | | | | Lower Seaboard Theater | | | | Naval | |
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