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Tag Archives: Battle of Fredericksburg
Burnside is Lee’s Quartermaster
Private William Little Davis, of the Winston Guards, wrote a long letter home to Louisville, MS, according to independent historian Jess N. McLean. On Friday, Dec. 19, 1862, Davis was still finishing it, on picket duty in Fredericksburg, “in the … Continue reading →
Burnside’s truce
Finally, on Monday afternoon, Dec. 15, 1862, Gen. Burnside called for a truce to bury the Union dead and, as independent historian Shelby Foote wrote in his narrative trilogy of the war, “relieve such of his wounded as had survived … Continue reading →
The Northern Lights
Many authors of fact and fiction about the Battle of Fredericksburg have written about the startling appearance of the aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, in the sky the bitterly cold night of Sunday, Dec. 14, 1862, when the battlefield below … Continue reading →
Posted in Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade, Battles: Fredericksburg, Mike M. Hubbert Diary, The Commanders, The Minute Men of Attala, The Spartan Band, William H. Hill Diary
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Aftermath
The battlefield was again foggy, but also with a smoky mist from the previous day’s fighting, as well as very quiet on the morning of Dec. 14, 1862—except for the pitiful groans and cries for water from the Union wounded, … Continue reading →
Posted in Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade, Battles: Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Mike M. Hubbert Diary, The Commanders, The Minute Men of Attala, The Spartan Band, William H. Hill Diary
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Aerial Reconnaissance
Professor Thaddeus Lowe, balloonist-leader of the Union’s Aeronautics Corps, ascended from Stafford Heights to provide intelligence on the battle. “…General Burnside…desired the balloon should not be shown to the enemy till he was ready to cross the river. On the … Continue reading →
The Battle of Fredericksburg
Saturday, Dec. 13, 1862, dawned warm and very foggy on the slopes of Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg. The 13th Regiment and the rest of the Mississippi brigade had slept in line of battle, in the center of the Confederate line. … Continue reading →
In line of battle
The Mississippi Brigade’s Dec. 11, 1862, stand in the town against the advancing Union army was only a sideshow to the approaching big show. The 13th Regiment withdrew with the rest of the brigade that night to the Telegraph Road … Continue reading →
Barksdale’s stand: Glorious or insubordinate?
The U.S. Army’s Center of Military History, has no doubt what happened on Dec. 11, 1862, or of what it meant: “At Fredericksburg, Brig. Gen. William Barksdale’s Mississippians, firing from houses along the river, repeatedly stopped the bridge building. Artillery … Continue reading →
Colonel Carter’s report
On Dec. 28, 1862, Col. John W. Carter, commanding the 13th Regiment at Fredericksburg, wrote the following report to Gen. Barksdale of the regiment’s fight on Dec. 11: GENERAL: In accordance with your order, I marched my regiment, at about … Continue reading →
The Union crosses into a fight
The 13th and 18th Mississippi regiments were awakened well before sunrise on Thursday, Dec. 11, 1862. They formed in the dark on Marye’s Heights. Then they were rushed down to the city where Union engineers were attempting to throw three … Continue reading →
