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It was not especially important.

Burnside's plan was quite workable. But it depended on a number of pontoons that were needed for his army to cross the river, and these had gone astray.

By the time they arrived, Burnside had lost the element of surprise, and the battle was an inevitable disaster.

As morale was so low, the army would not be up to any serious campaigning for the rest of the winter, and so there was a loss of momentum in the Northern war-effort. Burnside was replaced by Hooker.

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