In the second volume of Shelby Foote's celebrated chronicle of the American Civil War, Foote describes the carnage and subsequent bloodbath resulting from the Battle of Frederiksberg in 1862. While General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia are carrying out a successful campaign in the East, General Ulysses S. Grant begins a successful Union campaign in the West, starting with a relentless assault on Vicksburg.
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