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Battle of Fredericksburg
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The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside, as part of the American Civil War.
A visitor to the battlefield described the battle to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln as a "butchery." The South erupted in jubilation over their great victory, but in the North both the Army and President Lincoln came under strong attacks from politicians and the press. The defeat was one of the most decisive loses for the Union army, and it dealt a serious blow to Northern morale in the winter of 1862-63.
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How history related to present day: Charlottesville violence in August, 2017.In the summer of 2017, there was a violent white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in opposition to a plan by local officials to remove a statue of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park in Charlottesville. It stirred up much national debate and outcry.
Robert E. Lee was vilified in the North during the Civil War only to be transformed in the decades afterward into a heroic icon of "The Lost Cause," admired by many on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. But today, many view him as a symbol of racism and America's slaveholding history. His transformation reflects the changing moods in the United States around race, mythology and national reconciliation.