The Mud March ... Shewing sic Movement On Bank's Ford Jany. 19th 1863 by Hooker, Franklin & Sumner 1861

Old map of Fredericksburg Region, United States, Virginia.

January 1863, Union General Burnside ordered his exhausted troops to recross the Rappahannock River above R. E. Lee's left flank. A heavy rain fell as the army began to move and the road soon became a quagmire. Wagons and artillery sank; men and horses floundered. In the end the effort had to be abandoned, much to the disappointment of the amused Confederates who had been watching from across the river.

Created by Robert Knox Sneden in 1861.

• Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces.
• Relief shown by hachures.
• This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the institution for more information.
• In the Robert Knox Sneden Diary (Mss5:1 Sn237:1 v. 4, p. 200).
• Manuscripts

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