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) Total 1,589
CENTRE
First Corps Pickett's Division 54
Hood's Division 251
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Total 305
RIGHT WING--JACKSON
Light Division 2,120
Early's Division 932
D.H. Hill's Division 173
Taliaferro's Division 190
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Total (including 500 captured) 3,415
No attempt was made by the Confederates to follow the enemy across
the Rappahannock. The upper fords were open; but the river was rising
fast, and the Army of the Potomac, closely concentrated and within a
few miles of Aquia Creek, was too large to be attacked, and too close
to its base to permit effective manoeuvres, which might induce it to
divide, against its line of communications. The exultation of the
Southern soldiers in their easy victory was dashed by disappointment.
Burnside's escape had demonstrated the fallacy of one of the
so-called rules of war. The great river which lay behind him during
the battle of Fredericksburg had proved his salvation instead of--as
it theoretically should--his ruin.


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