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Battle of Fredericksburg

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Noun1.Battle of FredericksburgBattle of Fredericksburg - an important battle in the American Civil War (1862); the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee
American Civil War, United States Civil War, War between the States - civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865
Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, VA, Virginia - a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War


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In late 1862, as he watched thousands of Union soldiers die during the bloody battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate Gen.
At the battle of Fredericksburg in December, 1862, Meagher's brigade, comprising six all-Irish regiments from New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, suffered 45% casualties and the Irish enthusiasm for fighting drastically declined.
His lore of the water and the woods was given him silently by his father and his mother's father, who, family legend has it, walked home after the battle of Fredericksburg.
 
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