" COURAGE IN BLUE "
by Mort Kunstler
FREDERICKSBURG , VIRGINIA
sIt was an unforgettable display of valor amid the worst of war. During the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, Northern troops from the Army of the Potomac under General Ambrose E. Burnside repeatedly assaulted impregnable Southern positions on Marye’s Heights. Battle-seasoned troops from General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia were defending a heavily-fortified line behind a stone wall. Wave after wave of Federal troops charged up the hill - and were slaughtered. Casualties were horrific. Watching so many brave men in blue hurl themselves into what was almost certain death, General Lee was moved to comment: “It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it.”
At Fredericksburg, however, what Chamberlain and the 20th Maine experienced was not victory - but sacrifice and defeat. The men from Maine pushed their way over the bodies of their fallen comrades to within a stone’s throw from the Southern line before they were forced to find cover on the littered slopes of Marye’s Heights. There they stayed in the bitter cold all night and all day, lying amid the bodies of the dead. Finally, on the afternoon of the next day, they were recalled for the retreat of the Federal army. It was a harrowing and heart-rending exposure to the worst of war for Chamberlain and his men. Yet, they had proven their mettle. The valor they and other troops from the Army of the Potomac displayed at Fredericksburg would become one of the war’s most memorable and heroic sagas. The measure of their courage would be recorded after the war by one of their former foes, General James Longstreet, who watched their valiant assaults from atop Marye’s Heights. “A series of braver, more desperate charges than those hurled against our troop…was never known,” Longstreet observed. Victory and acclaim awaited Chamberlain and his 20th Maine at Gettysburg - forged on the field of fire at Fredericksburg. .
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