This Week in American Military History: Dec. 15, 1862:  Union Army Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside ends his disastrous series of frontal attacks against Gen. Robert E. Lee’s well-entrenched Confederate forces along Marye’s Heights during the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia. It is during the battle that Lee – emotionally moved by the valor of the … Continue reading From Fredericksburg To Bastogne