Because the pontoons that Burnside needed did not arrive for a few days, and Lee had time to man the high-lying positions so they were impregnable.
your grammar is wrong. its loose. Because they lost too many men and they practically surrendered to the Confederates.
Confederates won both Battles of Manassas/Bull Run, Chickamauga, Kenesaw Mountain, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, plus a number of pyrrhic victories: the Wilderness Campaign, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and many others.
The Confederates had deployed on Marye's Height about 10,000 men of Early's Division supported by the artillery reserve, totalling about 12,000 men.
The battle of Fredericksburg happened Dec.11-15,1862.
Some of the Union troops shouted "Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg" after the fleeing Confederates. There had been a major Battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia the preceding December.. There the Union was lined up and made as many as fifteen separate charges at Confederates dug in at an exceptionally strong defensive position. It was a lopsided Confederate victory, with Union troops shot down in the thousands. None got within fifty feet of the Confederate position at Fredericksburg. So at Gettysburg, with the repulse of Pickett's Charge, the Union troops felt they had repaid some of the grief they had experienced at Fredericksburg.
The Confederates.
Robert E. Lee.
12700
Yes, they did.
With the Confederates occupying Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg, but Stonewall Jackson mortally wounded.
The first or second?
North
Yes.
Confederates, both times - the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee.
The Union.
The Confederates
your grammar is wrong. its loose. Because they lost too many men and they practically surrendered to the Confederates.