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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
nt, a simultaneous crossing of the whole army may take place to day. A sun of April shone through a soft haze yesterday on the lingering snow, the air was ominously still, and numberless incidents betokened action. Those batteries not yet placed moved quietly to their bivouacks on the hillsides along the river, ready to take positions on the summit when required — Earthworks yet unfinished were completed, and aids from grand divisions were incessantly moving to and from headquarters. Doubleday's division of calm young veterans passed by here with faces unconscious of peril; and Burnside, in a short jacket, moved tranquilly in and out of his tent, with his hands in his pockets, as a man who had made all his dispositions, whose mind was easy, and who was confident of the results. Many orders indicative of action had been postponed till yesterday evening, in order to preserve secrecy, and at this hour it is impossible to ascertain whether they have yet been given, or what positions