Robert E. Lee decisively wins the Battle of Fredericksburg, but you wouldn't know from the This Day in the Civil War site.
[The] Army of the Potomac under Gen. Burnside suffers a costly defeat at Fredericksburg in Virginia with a loss of 12,653 men after 14 frontal assaults on well entrenched Rebels on Marye's Heights. "We might as well have tried to take hell," a Union soldier remarks. Confederate losses are 5,309. "It is well that war is so terrible - we should grow too fond of it," states Lee during the fighting.
- from The History Place
Of course, slave owners and other southern whites should already be used to carnage, what with all the times they beat up the people they "owned". Then again, the "gentile" people farmed that work out to the sociopaths, so they never had to see it.
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