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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
wanting! What a fearful fatality, too, that our accumulation of artillery was all but entirely unless to us, owing to the distance of the range and the exposure of our own troops. And what a misfortune, equally lamentable, that the approach to the rebel positions back of Fredericksburg was as area so restricted that our field batteries were almost equally useless, owing to the impossibility of manœuvering In the course of this correspondence, from the time of our first occupation of Falmouth; I have informed you of the gradual development of the rebel position, from an absolutely defenceless condition to the time that it became another Gibraltar. Never for a moment did we, who watched this progress, suppose that it would ever be attempted to be taken by hurling masses of men against those works. We had supposed that the resources of strategy would assuredly afford other means of accomplishing the desired end. Regarded as a position of defence, that which the rebel leader