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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 7 (search)
for the Confederate forces. Longstreet's corps was already at Fredericksburg; Jackson held the stretch of river below—his right at a remove of eighteen miles. But he had had abundant time to call in his scattered divisions, and the morning of the 13th found the entire Confederate army in position. Early on the morning of the 13th, Ewell's division under General Early, and the division of D. H. Hill, arrived after a severe night's march from their respective encampments in the vicinity of Buckner's Neck and Port Royal—the troops of Hill being from fifteen to eighteen miles distant from the point to which they were ordered.—Jackson: Report of Fredericksburg in Reports of the Army of Northern Virginia, vol. II., p. 434. Whatever hope of a successful issue attached to General Burnside's plan of attack rested on the hypothesis that the crossing of the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg could be made a surprise. I decided to cross here because I felt satisfied that they did not expect us <