Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Fredericksburg” in chapter 20, page 341 of Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders.:
...trength was about one hundred and fifty thousand men. A more than ordinary powerful artillery was attached to the army, of which no less than one hundred and forty-three guns, overlooking the town of Fredericksburg , commanded the course of the river and the opposite bank.
The Confederates numbered about eighty thousand men. They were drawn
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