By early 1863, Union soldiers with the Army of the Potomac had not been paid for 6 months and supplies were thin. Some 200 men were deserting every day and by January one-quarter of the men were AWOL. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, the new Union commander, wanted to take Fredericksburg but delays in getting the pontoon boats to cross the Rappahannock river allowed Lee to amass 75,000 men. The Union army was blown away and 9,000 men were killed. Elsewhere, the Confederate army was matching this success and a Union flotilla was captured. Lincoln called for more troops and in ...
Serial:
Ken Burns: The Civil WarSezon:
1Premiera (Świat):
25 września 1990Kraj produkcji:
USAGatunek:
Dokument, Wojenny, Historyczny
Sezony
Sezon 1
- The Cause (1861) (23 września 1990)
- A Very Bloody Affair (1862) (24 września 1990)
- Forever Free (1862) (24 września 1990)
- Simply Murder (1863) (25 września 1990)
- The Universe of Battle (1863) (25 września 1990)
- Valley of the Shadow of Death (1864) (26 września 1990)
- Most Hallowed Ground (1864) (26 września 1990)
- War Is All Hell (1865) (27 września 1990)
- The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865) (27 września 1990)
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