Battles With Notably Unsuccessful Frontal Assaults
- Battle of Gettysburg - Pickett's Charge aims at the Union center and is repulsed
- Battle of Fredericksburg - Union army fails to take Marye's Heights
- Siege of Vicksburg - failure of frontal assaults force Grant into siege operations
- Battle of Franklin - repeated Confederate charges are repulsed
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