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 * __ Fredericksburg Confederate Soldiers __**

In this battle the Confederate army was smaller than usual but they still dominated the Union army pretty bad. In this battle The Union had 114,000 soldiers and 12,653 casualties (1,284 killed 9,600 wounded 1,769 missing or captured). On the other hand the Confederacy Amy had soldiers only had 5,377 casualties (608 killed 4,116 wounded 658 captured or missind. It is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the Amrican Civil War. This means that the battle was heavily favored for the Confederacy and not the Union. The Union Army suffered terrible casualties in frontal assaults on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city, bringing an early end to their campaign against the Confederate capital of Richmond. A lot of websites on the Battle of Fredericksbug specificly mentioned that Fredericksburg Confedarate soldiers didn't do that good of a job, the Union solders were just not well managed and faught exstremely bad and the Confederate soldiers got lucky. The Confederate soldiers were just under estimated and were managed well and that can make a big differece. The Battle of Fredericksburg ended pretty good for the Confederate solders but they still had 608 soldiers die.