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and Marye's Hills is intersected by a number of deep ravines, up one of which the Plank road ascends to get on the main ridge.
On the south side of the road and a little distance from it the main ridge terminates in a high hill which descends abruptly to Hazel Run, the face towards the run being wooded.
At the lower front of the base of this hill is a mill called the Alum Spring Mill.
Just at the upper part of the base of the hill a branch of Hazel Run comes in, uniting with the main stream.
This branch rises some distance above near the Plank road, and runs nearly parallel to it, through a deep valley to its junction with the main stream.
On the south of this valley is another long wide ridge which extends for some distance parallel to that along which the Plank road runs and also terminates with an abrupt descent to Hazel Run.
On the south of the Plank road, and on the same ridge with it, is situated Mr. Guest's house some two or three miles from Fredericksburg, and nearly opposite to it on the other ridge is Mr. Downman's house.
On the extremities of the lesser ridges, projecting out from that on which the Plank road is located, was a line of small works and epaulments for artillery, extending from the river at Taylor's Hill to and across the Plank road, which had been previously made by our troops, and this line completely commanded the crests and rear slopes of Marye's, Cemetery and Stansbury's Hills, being much higher.
The Plank road crosses the little stream, with a high embankment extending for some distance on both sides, the stream passing through a culvert.
The Telegraph road passes towards Fredericksburg from Cox's house, where I was, along a ridge to Lee's Hill and descends the hill on the side of the slope next to Hazel Run.
Gordon, when he started, advanced rapidly along the Telegraph road, and when he reached Lee's Hill, it was found unoccupied, but a body of infantry was moving along the Plank road from the town between Marye's
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