Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! By George C. Rable. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 671. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2673-1.)

On the surface, Fredericksburg was a simple battle. "Without strategy or tactics to speak of, it was a series of gallant attacks with little hope, disastrous repulses with little effort," Henry Kyd Douglas once succinctly wrote (Douglas, I Rode With Stonewall [Chapel Hill, 1940], p. 204). Eschewing such a summary approach, George C. Rable has explored far beyond the surface-indeed, far beyond anything ...

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