NOUN
- an important battle in the American Civil War (1862); the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee
How To Use Battle of Fredericksburg In A Sentence
- The great battle of Fredericksburg, in which the Federal armies sustained a disastrous repulse, is described in the Supplement, page Foreign and Colonial News
- It later appeared that the quartermaster had ‘borrowed’ these when army supplies ran low after the Battle of Fredericksburg.