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Intelligence: The Secret War Within America’s Civil War
By Eric Either |
Civil War Times | Of course, intelligence meant nothing if it was not used in a timely manner, a fact that was illustrated at Fredericksburg on the morning of December 13, 1862. Hours before that Federal disaster, a captured Rebel offered Hooker (then in corps command) and Maj. Gen. Edwin Sumner “full information of the position and defenses of the enemy.” Ambrose Burnside, the army’s commander, chose not to change his battle plan—and the rest is history. This article was written by Eric Either and originally published in the April/March 2007 issue of Civil War Times Magazine. For more great articles, subscribe to Civil War Times magazine today! Help HistoryNet by bookmarking to
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