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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 52 0 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 48 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 28 28 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 26 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 24 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 24 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 20 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 18 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 16 0 Browse Search
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 12 0 Browse Search
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the railroad at Hamilton's Station, moved forward several hundred yards in the direction of Fredericksburgh. Hill's and Early's troops had driven the enemy from the woods and across the railroad in the direction of their pontoon-bridges, near Deep Run. Our men pursued them a mile and a half across the bottom-land, and fell back only when they had gotten under the shelter of their batteries. Our troops then retired to the south side of the railroad. Again the enemy rallied, and returned to icipated by more experienced heads, the day wore away without developing a Federal onslaught upon the Southern lines. The preceding night was employed busily in throwing dense masses of Northern troops across the pontoons at Fredericksburgh and Deep Run, and one or two other bridges thrown across at other points. So numerous were these bridges alleged to be, that busy rumor, hardly less imaginative and suggestive among the confederates than among their opponents, estimated them variously at fr
ral Lee shall never hereafter again expose his valuable life to the missiles of death. It is unnecessary; and now that Jackson has fallen, this, our great hero and chieftain, owes it to us, if not to himself, to be where the shock of battle cannot reach. Ten thousand, or even one hundred thousand men slain in battle might be replaced, but if General Lee should fall, who could take his place? Echo answers who! I have passed over the whole battle-ground since the fight. It reached from Deep Run — indeed, it may be said to extend from Hamilton's Crossing, five miles below Fredericksburgh, where the artillery duelling between our batteries and those of the enemy first occurred — up to Fredericksburgh, and from the town up as far as Wilderness, fifteen miles above. The country above where the main fighting took place, has been aptly described by General Lee as a tangled wilderness, and yet this section of densely wooded land, covered with the closest undergrowth ever seen, has been