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The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], A letter from Fredericksburg. (search)
red to exchange cards, with which I was fortunately provided. I have rarely met a more pleasant fellow than the Yankee Major with whom I negotiated. I had a good deal of conversation with him and the correspondent of the Associated Press, who was of the party. They all offered to send me papers containing an account of the affair. The Yankee Major was a great friend of Major Gen. Stuart, who soon come down to see him, and hailed him very cordially as "Bob," the other in turn calling him "Jeb." Our time was now cut, and both sides withdrew; the men ceased their trading and went to their posts again, left then with the Major, took leave with the salutation of au re There were thirteen hundred and fifty dead Yankees in a two acre field. My horse could not make his way through them. I have seen battle-fields, but never anything to equal this. Our loss in the same quarter was not small. Our artillery was posted on hill, our infantry at the bottom, in entrenchments.