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On November 14, Burnside, now in command of the Army of the Potomac, sent a corps to occupy the vicinity of Falmouth near Fredericksburg. The rest of the army soon followed. Lee reacted by entrenching his army on the heights behind the town. On December 11, Union engineers laid five pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock under fire. On the 12th, the Federal army crossed over, and on December 13, Burnside mounted a series of futile frontal assaults on Prospect Hill and Marye's Heights that resulted in staggering casualties. Meade's division, on the Union left flank, briefly penetrated Jackson's line but was driven back by a counterattack. Union generals C. Feger Jackson and George Bayard, and Confederate generals Thomas R.R. Cobb and Maxey Gregg were killed. On December 15, Burnside called off the offensive and recrossed the river, ending the campaign. Burnside initiated a new offensive in January 1863, which quickly bogged down in the winter mud. The abortive "Mud March" and other failures led to Burnside's replacement by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker in January 1863.

Result(s): Confederate victory

Location: Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg

Campaign: Fredericksburg Campaign (November-December 1862)

Date(s): December 11-15, 1862

Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside [US]; Gen. Robert E. Lee [CS]

Forces Engaged: 172,504 total (US 100,007; CS 72,497)

Estimated Casualties: 17,929 total (US 13,353; CS 4,576)

Scenario Download:

For CC, PBEM only

Files:

About the files:
These are modifications for the HPS Campaign Corinth game.

Copy the Main Files, and the OOB Files, into your HPS Simulations/Campaign Corinth directory.

Copy the Leaders file and the Units File into your HPS Simulations/Campaign Corinth/Info directory.

Copy the Icons file into your HPS Simulations/Campaign Corinth/maps directory.

Note:  Pete's Cornith mods all use the same set of files except for the Main Files.  Thus if you have installed one mod, you only need the Main Files for the others.

Author: Peter Seibel maeckes@t-online.de

 Link to Pete's Cornith Page

Main Files  (49 KB)

OOB Files (29 KB)

Leaders (1,839 KB)

Units (423 KB)

Icons (1,391 KB)

For BGN 32-bit last version, PBEM only

Files:

How to install:

Copy your <<C:\Talonsoft\BGN>> folder and rename <<C:\Talonsoft\FBG>>.  Delete all of the subfolder leaving only <<C:\Talonsoft\FBG|AN>> .  Delete the contents of <<C:\Talonsoft\FBG|AN>> .  Download the map files, the scenarios file, and FBOthers.zip and extract them all into <<C:\Talonsoft\FBG|AN>> .  Then download the FBUnitsPlus.zip file and extract it into <<C:\Talonsoft\FBG>>. Start your game by C:\Talonsoft\FBG\BG_Start.EXE.

Map Files -
  FBMain0.zip (744 Kb)
  FBMain1.zip (1510 Kb)
  FBMain2.zip (11040 Kb)
  FBMain3.zip (2990 Kb)
 Other files -
  FBOthers.zip (1070 Kb)

  FBUnitsPlus.zip (659 Kb)
 Scenario files -
  FBScen.zip (36 Kb)

 Map Files -
  Download from above
 Other files -
  Download from above
  Scenario files -
  FBScen(NF).zip (39 Kb)

For information concerning this system click here – New System.doc