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Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Dec 13th 1862 pacific coast art The frock coat does whatBattle of Fredericksburg, Va. Dec 13th 1862 a documentary engraving of the December assault on Marye's Heights, where Burnside fed wave after wave of Union infantry into a stone wall and a sunken road, and the Rappahannock carried the ledger downstream. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers