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be mentioned the Sixteenth, under Captain Feltus, which took 228 men into action and lost 144 in killed and wounded. In November, 1862, the Second and Eleventh regiments were detached from Law's brigade and ordered to Richmond. At Fredericksburg, December 11th, Barksdale with his Mississippians occupied the town, and posting his men in rifle-pits, cellars, and behind any shelter that offered, repulsed nine desperate attempts of the enemy to complete their pontoon bridges over the Rappahannock river. They were finally driven from their position by a terrific cannonading. The Seventeenth Mississippi, three companies of the Eighteenth and ten sharpshooters from the Thirteenth, were all the troops that were actually engaged defending the crossings in front of the city, there being no place for a greater number. The brigade made another stand on Princess Anne street, after the enemy entered the town. This street-fighting continued until 7 p. m., when Barksdale was ordered back