Talk:Battle of Fredericksburg

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1 Date and place
2 Casualties Inaccurate
3 Added: Quote
4 Missing reference: Sumner

[edit] Date and place

The date and place info in this article isn't the same as on this site. --[[User:Brian0918|brian0918 _talk]] 22:42, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Casualties Inaccurate

The number of casualties in the War Box and the text of the article disagree by at least an order of magnitude. Guapovia 10:43, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I fixed a minor error in the text's Confederate figure, but perhaps you're confusing casualties with killed. Casualties = men lost due to death, serious wounds, and captured/missing. ACW articles rarely dwell only on actual deaths. Hal Jespersen 12:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

The troop strength differs between the text number and the number in the war box. Ctifumdope 21:10, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Most sources seem to agree on the Union losses being in the 12,500 range. My original 4,201 figure for the CSA came from official Army of Northern Virginia reports, but it may be too low. Confederate officers often didn't report minor battle wounds on their reports at all. Most sources have about what the article says now. As for the troop strength, Lee had just over 72,000, everyone agrees on that. For the Army of the Potomac, it depends on whether or not you count the men Burnside never brought over the river. user:Jsc1973

[edit] Added: Quote

I've added the quote said by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain after the war. 65.255.130.104 22:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)VonR

Oops, I reverted that change without providing an explanation in the edit history. Sorry, I will do it here. That quotation, provided without citation and poorly formatted, really has nothing to do with the aftermath of the battle. It may be more appropriate in Chamberlain's bio. Also, we don't do 'decisive.' See User:Hlj/adjectives. Hal Jespersen 23:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Missing reference: Sumner

Please add details/link for "Sumner". Assume you mean "Edwin Vose Sumner", but only his last name is used with no explanation or reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.170.53.179 (talk) 02:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC)