This image is the cover for the book Faces of Union Soldiers at Fredericksburg, Civil War Series

Faces of Union Soldiers at Fredericksburg, Civil War Series

Look into the eyes of these soldiers and see the faces of those who dared to stare into the face of Death.

The Battle of Fredericksburg, fought December 11-15, 1862, is often remembered for the seemingly futile attacks by the Army of the Potomac against dug in Confederates on Marye's Heights. Less well understood is the fighting south of the heights on what has become known as Slaughter Pen Farm. In this work the images of thirty Union soldiers are published for the first time. They give a face and history to those men who struggled across that bloody landscape, as well as to those that charged up the slope of Marye's Heights into Confederate fire.

Authors Matthew Borders and Joseph Stahl introduce you to these men, their stories and their sacrifice on the bullet swept battlefield of Fredericksburg.

Matthew Borders, Frank A. O’Reilly

Matthew Borders has an MS in historic preservation. He is a park ranger at Monocacy National Battlefield and is a member of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation and the Frederick County Civil War Round Table. He was one of the 2019 recipients of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation's Dr. Joseph Harsh Award. Joseph W. Stahl has an MBA and is retired from the Institute for Defense Analyses. He is a member of the Company of Military Historians, Save Historic Antietam Foundation and Hagerstown Civil War Roundtable and is coauthor of Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War. Both are NPS Certified Battlefield Guides at Antietam National Battlefield and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Their first book together was Faces of Union Soldiers at Antietam.

The History Press