Movie Details
Original Language:English
Across the Rappahannock
DirectorBrian L. Frye
11 min
Plot
On December 12 1863 General Ambrose Burnsides Army of the Potomac engaged General Robert E Lees Army of Northern Virginia in the town of Fredericksburg Virginia Close combat through the streets of Fredericksburg and multiple assaults on the Confederate army entrenched in the heights behind the town resulted in heavy Federal casualties which forced an eventual withdrawal In November 2001 I attended a small and relatively informal reenactment of the battle of Fredericksburg About a hundred men and women did their best to illustrate the actions of the thousands of young men who offered their lives a century earlier An air of absurd theater suffused the entire event which provided the ground for its peculiar truth Everyone played their part exceedingly honestly and well and left something on the film I was myself surprised to find there
