On this day, thirty-two years ago, the Army of Northern Virginia met the Army of the Potomac on the bloody field of Fredericksburg, and the result was that the Army of the Potomac was driven pell-mell from that field and across the Rappahannock.
A Mountain, Groveton, Fauquier Springs, Bristoe, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, (or Chantilly), Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (or Second Fredericksburg), Salem Church, Winchester, Gettysburg, Second Bristoe, Rappahannock, MinFredericksburg), Salem Church, Winchester, Gettysburg, Second Bristoe, Rappahannock, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, the Po, Bethesda, Lynchburg, Monocacy, Washington, Parker's Ford, Shepperdstown, Kernstown, Winchester again (or Oppequan), Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and Waynesboro, and in many less affairs, such as Auburn, Sumand Chancellorsville.
It was a splendid scene when the fog lifted December 13, 1862, and revealed on the plains of Fredericksburg, in martial array, Burnside's army of 100,000 men and 200 guns confronting the hills crowned with the batteries and b
5; his losses compared with those of Sheridan, 314; Gen. Lee's faith in, 317; compared with English Commanders, 321; personal and martial qualities of, 326; last days of, 330; Resolutions of Association of Army of N. Va., 382; of the Southern Historical society, 335.
F Company Association of Veterans, 348.
Federal Forces, Number of the, 40.
Fisher's Hill, Battle of, 305.
Flewellen, M. D., Surgeon E. A. Sketch of, 166, 280,
Foard, M. D., Surgeon A J. Sketch of, 166, 279.
Fredericksburg, Battle of, 288.
French, Major-General S. G. Criticism of, 1.
Fulkerson, Col., Abram, 127.
Garland, Col. R. R., 10.
Gettysburg, Battle of, 289.
Globe-Democrat, The, St. Louis, Missouri, cited, 67.
Gordon, Armistead C. His poem at the Dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, 355.
Gorgas, Gen., Josiah, 90.
Greely, Horace, 35.
Gregg, Percy, on the South, 93.
Hampton, Gen., Wade. His duel with a Federal soldier at Gettysburg, 122; his capture of Grant's entire