NF The Fredericksburg Campaign

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Picked up a "Like New" copy of that for $0.01 on Amazon in December 2015. 3rd book by Edward Stackpole that I have read. 8 pages of Foreword/Prologue. 299 pages of text. 17 maps. 131 pictures/illustrations. First published in 1957. This is the Second Edition,published in 1991.

Very easy read. Easy to follow the battle descriptions and troop movements using the many maps. It was my first book to read specifically about Fredericksburg. Great starter book on Fredericksburg. I had just read Stackpole's From Cedar Mountain To Antietam and the first 55 pages of the Fredericksburg book was basically a synopsis on 2nd Manassas and Antietam and their aftermath. It was a little aggravating to read 55 pages before it started on Burnside being placed in command of the ANV and the armies' movement to the Fredericksburg positions.

At the end of the book is a 14 page commentary by D. Scott Hartwig. It points out that Stackpole's 1957 book was the first book-length study of Fredericksburg since the previous one in 1882. It also states that subsequent research and discovery of information caused the Second Edition to be published with the commentary to correct a few factual errors in the 1st Edition and challenge the reader to reconsider some of the opinions expressed by Stackpole in the First Edition based on subsequently discovered information.

Glad I read it. Worth the time and effort. Don't wanna say the new things I learned or get much more into specifics. Don't wanna spoil it for someone else.