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Lets say that instead of waiting on the other side of the Rappahannock that General Burnside takes Major General Sumners advice and fords the River to take Fredericksburg which was only guarded by around 500 men. I’d assume the city would be easily taken and that Lee would take his position at the North Anna River. What happens next? What are Burnsides options? Can he take Richmond and win the war?