Saturday, June 29, 2013

November 9, 1862---Burnside's Boys Bivouac In Blizzard



NOVEMBER 9, 1862:        

General Burnside submits a plan to attack the Confederate forces in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia. 

Without waiting for an OK, he orders the Army of The Potomac to begin moving. It is a bad omen that a major nor’easter strikes the eastern seaboard, socking in everyplace from Maine to Virginia. Burnside’s army begins to march into the teeth of the storm, getting bogged down almost immediately, and returns to camp.


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