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The Second Battle of Fredericksburg, also known as the Second Battle of Marye's Heights, took place on May 3, 1863, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, as part of the Chancellorsville Campaign of the American Civil War.
On May 1, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee left portions of Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early's division to hold Fredericksburg, while marching west with the rest of the army to meet Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's main offensive thrust at Chancellorsville with four corps of the Army of the Potomac. On May 3, the Union VI Corps under Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, reinforced by Brig. Gen. John Gibbon's II Corps division, having crossed the Rappahannock River, assaulted and carried the Confederate entrenchments on Marye's Heights. This was the same ground assaulted December 13, 1862, by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside in the first Battle of Fredericksburg, which resulted in horrendous Union losses. In the second battle, Early was defending with a small force of about 10,000 men, many of which were spread out thinly to the north and south of the Heights. The outnumbered Confederates withdrew and regrouped west and southeast of town. Sedgwick moved cautiously west, toward defeat at the Battle of Salem Church.

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