Fredericksburg II (Marye’s Heights )

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Fredericksburg II (1863)

War:

American Civil War

Also known as:

Marye’s Heights

Date(s):

3 May 1863

Location:

Fredericksburg, Virginia, US

Outcome:

Union victory

Description:

Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, USA
Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early , CSA

The Union had two Corps, the Confederates only a division.

There were roughly 2,000 casualties all told.

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.

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