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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Historical sketch of the Rockbridge artillery , C. S. Army , by a member of the famous battery. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Donaldsonville artillery at the battle of Fredericksburg . (search)
The Donaldsonville artillery at the battle of Fredericksburg.
Editor Picayune:
When, in the middle of that dark night, we heard the signal of those three guns fired in rapid succession, we hastened to take the position on the line which had been assigned to us. At the same time the enemy opened a brisk cannonade, which lasted only a few minutes.
Evidently he was already up and getting ready for that battle which was to make the 13th of December, 1862, so memorable.
Of the 190,000 men thus awakened before the sun had risen, 2, 145 were going to die before that sun would set.
Our six guns had been posted in extended order.
One was placed on Marye's Hill, immediately on the left of the plank road leading to Fredericksburg.
Immediately on the right of that road stood our old friends, the Washington Artillery.
About four hundred yards to the left was our Gun No. 4.
This gun was a United States three-inch rifle, captured in one of the battles around Richmond.
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The South's Museum. (search)