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What a boy saw in the Army
Jesse Bowman Young (1844–1914), 1894
Named on the page for Battle of Fredericksburg.
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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.
11–15 December 1862
Battle of Fredericksburg
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER VIII. THE HEIGHTS OF FREDERICKSBURG = 133
THE HEIGHTS OF FREDERICKSBURG.
THE HEIGHTS OF FREDERICKSBURG.
THE HEIGHTS OF FREDERICKSBURG.
THE HEIGHTS OF FREDERICKSBURG.
THE HEIGHTS OF FREDERICKSBURG. 135
The officer replied with a significant look and a shrug of the shoulders, and added, " There is trouble ahead. General Burn- side is determined to charge the heights of Fredericksburg. No army can carry the works in front. It is madness to try it. His pioneer corps have just been trying to lay the pontoon bridges, and have been so annoyed and delayed by the rebel sharpshoot ers in the houses along the bank of the river on that side that the general has ordered the town to be shelled in order to drive the fellows out of their hiding places. I do not know what the up shot will be. I wish we were all well out of it."
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