December 13th: Today in 1862 General Ambrose Burnside launched numerous failed attacks against General Robert E. Lee while losing the Battle of Fredericksburg. Burnsides attacks cost the Union Army twelve hundred men killed and ten thousand men wounded while failing to budge the Confederate Army at all. The loss was a low point for the Union Army and for President Lincoln leading many to doubt whether continuing the Civil War was worth it or not.

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