Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: General Darius Couch's Account of the Battle of Fredericksburg (Illustrated)

Darius Nash Couch (July 23, 1822 – February 12, 1897) was a career U.S. Army officer during the Mexican-American War, the Second Seminole War, and fought in the Union Army during the Civil War. During the Civil War, Couch fought most prominently in the Peninsula and Fredericksburg campaigns of 1862, as well as the Chancellorsville and Gettysburg campaigns of 1863. He rose to command a corps in the Army of the Potomac, and led divisions in both the Eastern Theater and Western Theater.

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