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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 20: General Burnside assumes command of the army of the Potomac (search)
or kindly advice, steeled himself to leave everything to the maze of battle and went on to prepare the way for the sacrifice. Sumner's grand division broke camp and marched to convenient points for the bridges that were to lead into Fredericksburg, where the engineers proposed to push out the pontoons and plank them. Looker's grand division was held a little back of Sumner's for support; while Franklin moved his to the lower crossing. At the early hour of three on the morning of December 11th, under the veil of a thick fog, the energetic engineer soldiers began their work. Some of our infantry under my eye was located close at hand to guard the working parties. The artillerymen on the heights behind me also contributed their portion as soon as they could see. One of Franklin's bridges was laid by 2.30 in the morning, and the other, close by, was finished at a later hour. Our engineer battalion throwing out our bridge was not so successful. At about eight o'clock I detac
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 21: battle of Fredericksburg (search)
uer in the end. She shook her head and rejoined with a look: You will have a Stone wall to encounter, Hills to climb, and a Long street to tread before you can succeed. But, afterwards, seeing us depart with cheerfulness, like a merchant going to business or a rested workman to his shop, as I said good morning, she replied: Now I fear you more than ever, for I had understood that all of Lincoln's men were bad. What So cheerful when going straight into battle? About eleven o'clock of December 11th Franklin reported to Burnside that the lower bridges were in readiness. The latter instructed him to keep his grand division where it then was for the present; but at four that afternoon he was directed to cross his whole command. The movement over the pontoons began. Before many men had reached the south shore Burnside changed his orders, sending over, only one brigade, Devens's, which deployed and held a position there as did Hawkins and I, a mile above. On the 12th Franklin's tw