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'FREDERICKSBURG.
‘Gen. Burnside’s Campaign on
the Rappahannock
' A QUARTER CENTURY AGONB
Story of the Sunken Road and tho
Fatal Stone Wall.
Portraits of Leading Generals on Both
Sides—Burnside Arranges Bis Army
in Three Grand Divisions Commundcd
by Franklin and Hooker.
Marye's Heights—“A Chicken Could
Not Live Upon That Field"—\anes of
Sumner,
Men in Blue Fight and Fall.
[Copyrighted by the American Press Association]
Those wlro have followed somewhat closely
the career of Gen. McClellan cannot fail to
be impressed that there was a fate which
more than once deprived hint of victory at
the moment it seemed surely in his grasp.
Just before the beginning of Pope‘s campaign
in Virginia, while the Army of the Potomac
was still on the James below Richmond, Mc-
Clellan announced himself ready to strike the
Confederate capital. Even Ire seemed to be
satisfied that his army was ready and suf-
ficiently large. If he had attacked Richmond
just at that time, early in August, 1862,
it could have been taken, most likely, for Lee
had Well nigh stripped it: of defenders to send
men against Pope iii Northern Virginia.
But at the very time McClellan was giving
orders to advance on Richmond, Halleck sent
him a peremptory command to quit the
peninsula with his army and prepare toco-
opernte with Pope. Nothing was left but to
obey, and McClellan’s opportunity was lost.
After the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17,
1862. there wasan interval of doing nothing.
McClellan distribqu his army along the
Maryland side of the Potomac, watching its
i’oi'ds. He evidently thought the used up
army of Lee might attempt another invasion
of Maryland. He called vigorously for re—
enter-cements, supplies of all kinds. By the
last of September he had an army of 100,000
men, still on the Maryland side of the Poto
mac. Oct. 6Presideut Lincoln directed the
general to “cross the Potomac and give battle
to the enemy, or drive him south.”
But McClellan was not yet ready to do so.
While he was waiting, that (lashing Con-
federate cavalry leader, I. E. B. Stuart,
made one of his characteristic raids, and,
figuratively speaking, tweaked the nose
of the whole Army of the Potomac under
the eyes of its commander. Oct. 10 he
viirssed the Potomac into Maryland with
1,800 cavalry, near Williarirspor't, gal»
loped northward into Cbairrbersburg,
Pa, destroyed the public property there.
turned southward,
circled around Mr:-
Clellnn’s arm y
lying on the PO
tomac, hurrieal
down the mouth of
the Monocacy, in
Maryland, 11 u (1
then r'ecrossed into
5 Virginia and
joined Lee. Thus
\L‘ a second time this
2 bold raider rode
around McCleL
‘1 lan’s whole army.
GEN- ““3351”:- ‘The weeks went
on. Daily, as of old, the newspaper bead
lines announced, “All quiet on the Potomac.”
Their the old impatience and dissatisfaction
broke out anew, and the country began to
wonder why it; was so quiet alorrg' the Po-
romue.
More weeks went on till it was six weeks
after the battle of Antietam, and nothing
done. By that time Lee’s army was thor-
oughly rested and re-enforccd, and amounted
to 70,000. To the president’s orders to move
against him early in October McClellan had
answered that he must have new cavalry
horses. By the last of October be concluded
that he was ready to cross the Potomac. The
crossing was actually made Nov. 2. .
McClellan ordered his main army to con-
centrate at Warreiiton, Va. On this Ice, his
army iir goOd trim, his communications with
Richmond perfect, resolved to retreat soul. -
ward. The main portion of the Confederate --
army marched up the Shenandoah valley,
turned Off to the Rappahamrock and took po-
sition at: Culpepper. Stonewall Jackson’s
command, with the cavalry under J. E. B.
Stuart, remained behind to hang upon the
Union army and annoy and delay it as far
as possible till the main Confederate body
should be secure. .
If one could have stood upon a peak of the
Blue Ridge mountains of a bright morning iir
those early days of November, 1862, he would
have seen a sight to thrill gods and men. On
the east side of the ridge McClelhin‘s mighty
army of over 100,000 men marched with wnv- '
ing banners and ‘
gleaming guns
south to W'arrerr-
ton. Geri. Alfred
Pleasonton led the'
advance with the
cavalry.
On the west side
of the Blue Ridge
he who looked could ;
have seen at the-
otber great liost ..
moving southward. ,/
It was Lee’s Army "I
of Northern ,Vir- //'
giiria. The two GEN. anAsouros'.
hostile forces were sometimes only a few miles
apart in this race southward, but with the
ridge between them. But Lec moved more
rapidly. His ndvauec, under Lorrgstreet,
hurried forward, crossed the mountains and
took position at Culpepper Nov. 3.
This rapid marching, however, separated
Lee’s army more than was safe. Jackson and
the cavalry were three days behind him.
Perceiving this, McClellan at length deter-
mined, of his own. free will, to give battle. He
believed that he could now strike a fatal
blow. His a'arrny was at Wurrenton, Lee's
advance at Culpepper, some ten miles south.
He said afterward of the situation: “I did ex-
pect I could either separate them and beat
them in detail, or else force them to concen-
trate as far back as Gordonsviile, and thus
place the Army of the Potomac in position
either to adopt the Fredericksburg lure of
advance upon Richmond or to be removed to
the peninsula.”
The good weather of the autumrilrad by
that time primed away. McClellan now
however, seemed to be thoroughly alive and
in full vigor of determination. Tire night of
Nov. 7 there was a heavy rain over the cam
of the Army of the Potomac. Gen. McCle ~‘
lair satin his tent concluding plans and giv-
ing directions for the great hostile movement
to he made the next two days. A messenger
brought him a dispatch from Washington.
It was an order relieving him from corn-
mnird of the Army of the Potomac, and tip-
pointing Geri. Ambrose E. Burnside in his
lace. With that the ironic of Geri, McClel-
an disappears from American military Iris- -
tor-y. He resigned his commission in tho
7
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presidential election in 1864, when he ‘was the
candid ate against: Lincoln. _
Thus apparently again in the moment of
SUCCESS, McClellarr’s adverse fate interposed
mid snatched it from him. -
BURNSIDE’S CAMPAIGN.
Gen. Burnside was a urmr of fine, soldiei‘ly
presence, and highly esteemed. He was born
in Liberty, Irrd., in 182-1, and was graduated
at West Point iii 1817, just in time to be sent
to Mexico. He afterwards resigned from the
army and established a factory for making
a breech loading rifle of his own invention
in Rirode island. His career was a varied
one, and when the war begun, in 1861, be
was an ofiicer of the Illinois Central railroad
He imnrodiatcly joined the Union army as
colonel of n lllrodp Island regiment, and rose
to be a major general Of volunteers Imllie‘
dint/31y after the first Bull Run. He was put to
duty along the Atlantic coast, and Newborn,
Beaufort and Roanoke Island were trophies
of his tummy ability.
At the beginning of Pope's campaign he
was called tonrginia. He performed active
and distinguished ‘scrvice tlirough'that and
the Maryland campaign. So well was [he
thought of thatthe command of the Army
of the Potomac lrad been offered to him twrce
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' i‘efds'ed'it. His modesty seems to have been
army; however, not 'rrntii the day of tho ~
unequaled iii the bistirrfy of army officers.
The Army of the Potomac had already
been the grave of the military reputations of
McClellan and Pope. Burnside’s name was
to add the third to the hapless list. After
his Fredericksburg cuiirpnign he was sent west
and performed distinguished service in the
department of the Ohio, freeing east Tonnes--
see at length from the Confederates. During
the final campaign against Richmond he was
in the east again and commanded his old
Ninth Corps, contributing not a little to the
closing victory.
After the war he was three terms gov-
ernor-Of Rhodo Island. He was in Europe
during the Franco-German war, and was ad-
. irritated within the
belligerent lines.
He retnrhed and
represented Rhoda
Island in the Uni-
ted States Senate.
While serving in
this capacity in
1881 he died, rc-
spected and la-
."- urented. At the
”a time the order
‘ ~came placing him
,4 at the bend of tho
". Army of the Po-
t o m u c, doubtful
Gill-'- FARKE- still of his capac-
ity for great command, he would have do-
clined the responsibility if possible. Brit the
peremptory order from Lincoln left him no
alternative.
He decided that the Union army should
march on Richmond by way of Fredericks-
burg, Va. Richmond was to be the object
aimed at, and Acquia Creek was to be his
base of supplies.
Once more the battleground is chm: god to
.the cris crossed field of Virginia
Fredericksburg is nearly 100 miles south of
the field of Antietam. It is on the right bank
of the Rappuhannock river, a little inland
from the Potomac, and the railroad leads di-
rectly south from it to Richmond, fifty miles
distant.
Acquia Creek is a town on the Potomac at
the mouth of the creek of the sanrerrame.
A railroad leads from it to Fredericksburg.
On the 15th of November, 1862, Burnside be-
gun his grand march to Fredericksburg. He
had organized his army into three “grand
divisions,” right, center and left, commanded,
respectively, by Sumner, Hooker and Frank-
lirr. They left Warrenton, Va., as their
starting point. By Nov. 19 the three grand
divisions went in the vicinity of Fredericks-
burg, orr:,the east side of the Rappuhurrnock.
Sumner-’s grand division reached Fal-
moutli. directly Opposite Fredericksburg,
Nov. 17. He was not permitted by Burnside
to cross, however, and that; very day Lee
sent a large body of troops to reenforce the
Confederate garrison there. ,
Burnside began at once tO-put. itr order the
railroad from Acquia Creek to Fredericks-
bur-g, to nrakcsure of receiving his supplies.
Gen. H. J. limit. was Burnside’s chief of ar-
tillery. He posted all the guns on the Federal
side of the Rap- ' .
palmurrock, and
superiiitended their
transportation
from Aequia Creek.
Hcdecidcd that it ,
was necessary to
plant gunsuporr the
heights above the
, left bank of the E
Rappahunnock in 4"“
sufficient number-
to cover the entire-'7 , -, ‘-
lerrgth of tire Oppo- I”
sing forces on the ‘
right bank. Henry GEN- HUNT-
J ucksorr Hunt was born in 1821 in Ohio, like
his commander a western man, also a West
Point graduate. He finished the course of in-
struction there when only 18 years Old. Dur-
ing the Mexican war he became major of ar-
tillery, and was afterwards especially identi-
fir-d with that am of the service. He was
McClellmr’s chief of stall? during the peninsu-
nr campaign. Duringr the whole war he
served in the Army of the Potomac. and was
one of its most: faithful and useful officers.
Buruside’s chief cavalry commander con—
tinued to be Gen. Alfred Pleusonton. Pleas-
oirtori was born at Washington city, in 1824,
and was the satire age as Burnside. He en-
tered the cavalry service when he left lVest
Point, in 1844. and was sent to Mexico. He
remained in the west and southwest on duty
meat of the time till the outbreak of the civil
_ war. At Fredericksburg be held the rank of
br-igndier general of volunteers. He saw
severe fighting there and subsequently at
Chancellorsvillc and Gettysburg. After-
words he was ordered west, and his troopers
helped clear Missouri of Sterling Price‘s inerr
iir 1864.
In 1868 Gen. Plensorrtori resigned from the
array and engaged in mining and other busi-
ness. I-lis advocacy of the blue glass theory is
well known. .
Burirside’s chief of staff was Brig. Gen.
John G. Parke. said to be one of the
lrarrdsonrest of tho accomplished officers
Igrouped about the headquarters of
the Army of the Potomac. Parke was
a Pennsylvanian. bortr iii 1827, and a
West Pointer of 1849. He entered the engi-
neer corps. He had been a brigadier general
or the North Carolina coast; under Burnside,
and, with his old conrrrmnder, joined the
Army of the Potomac, He afterwards was
ordered south and west. He took active part
in the siege Of Vicksburg, also of Knoxville.
He foil wed tho fortunesof Burnside. At
the final battle: before Richmond, and pre-
vious to that; in 1864, Gen. Parke, under
Burnside, corniirurrded the old Ninth corps.
Gen. Parke is now superintendent at “loci;
Point. .
Military critics declare that Burnside
should’have aimed at. Iec's army rather than
at Richrrrorrd. At all events, be determined
lic sentiment and the newspapers demanded
that something should be done at once.
While Burnside was making a way for the
transportation of supplies the Confederates
were fortifying Fredericksburg and tire
heigirtsbelriud it. At- tho end of November
Lees whole army lay in acrescent around
Fredericksburg. ts right was at Port Royal,
below the town; the left a little distance
above. The Confederate fortifications were
truly formidable, so as to render crossing di-
» rectiy iii front of the city hopeless. But [3011'
been bridges were prepared by Burnside, and
be arranged to cross the Rappahnnnock at
Skerrker’s Neck, twelve miles below. Leo
discovered this move in time to frustrate it.
There seem to have been ways whereby
? ' "Burnsidc‘s ions were constantly discovered
ftcr Lee,‘ on that almost irrimediately.
IVith a large portion of Lee’s army at
Sketiker’s Neck, urnside next thought he
could force the passage of the Rappahannock
and take Fredericksburg under the guns of
those who were left. The Union artillery
was planted upon Staflord Heights, above
Falnroutlr. It commanded the whole plain of
Frederi ksburg.
Lecwassowell inforu l of all that went
on iii the Union“ army t at within twenty-
four hours after McClellan had'be’err super-
seded by Burnside ho was informed of it.
LEE’S GENERALS.
Around Lee in that deadly crescent upon
the heights of Fredericksburg were grouped
the tried generals whose stubborn fighting
qualities bad enabled him to carry dismay to
the Army of the Potomac more than once.
Longstrcet. Stonewall Jackson, the Hills,
Jubnl Early and Stuart, with his cavalry-
men, were waiting for the deadly grapple
with Burnside‘s irrerr.
Nov. 17, the day that Sumner reached Fril-
mouth, opposite
Frederic k s b u r g,
Lee sent two divis-
ions, under Mc-
Laws and Ransom,
accompanied by
cavalry and artil-
l'o r y, to occupy
Frederick s b u r g .
_ Ransom took con-
‘x spicuous part in
. _ the bloody fighting
thatafterwardsoc-
' curred there. It:
may be mentioned
in passing that this
GEN. RANSOM.
Geri. Ransom is now United States Senator
Matt. 1V. Ransom. from North Carolina.
Gen. Ransom, was a native of North Coro-
iirra. born in 1820. He was ,educated in his
own state, became a lawyer, and held various
local offices previous to the civil war. Then
he entered the Confederate crmynnd passed
up through various promotions to the rank of
major general. He continued in the Army
of Northern Virginia till the end, and sur-
rendered ”with Lee at Appomattox. He is
now serving his third consecutive term in the
United States senate.
Another Confederate general who has en-
tered Washington by a different route from
the one he proposed twenty-five years ago is
Wade Horripton, United Statesserrntor front
South Carolina. He too was at Fredericks-
burg and commanded a brigade of cavalry,
W. H. F. Lee commanding another. J. E.
B. Stuart was the division cavalry com-
mander. -
Wade Hampton distinguished himself iii
the Confederate cavalry service. Lee placed
irirn on guard above Fredericksburg to pre-
ventBurriside from my, .. -
crossing, while W. '
H. F. Lee guarded
the fords below the
town. ,
Hampton was
born in' South Car-
olinaiii 1818, and
was graduated :at -
8 our t h Carolina '
collegd. He en-
tered political life
at the beginning of
his career, and was
elected to various
A
. stab-v52»; Dur- WAD: mime-row.
to occupyFrcdericksbm-g immediately. Pub- * '
ing frr'c‘fi‘a'r hc reached the rank of major gen-
eral. Since then he has served two terms as.
governor of South Carolina, previous to his
election to the United States senate.
Senator Hampton’s grandfather, also
called Wade Hampton, was likervise a soldier
and politician. He was an officer in the rev-
olution and a trreurber of congress~ in 1705.
The old man died at Columbia, S. (1., in 1834,
the richest planter and slave owner in the
United States. -
The name of Lee was humorously repre»
sented in the officers grouped around the
Confederate comrrrander. Brig. Gen. W. H.
F. Lee, the cavalry'commarrder, was Robert
E’s second son. Robert E’s nephew, Fitz
Hugh, also a cavalrymnn, held a prominent.
command in the Army of Northern Virginia.
All of Lee‘s sons—three of them—served in
the Confederate army. The eldest. GJV. 0.,
was an aid to Jeff
Davis and after-
ward a general.
On the death of iris J
father G. l". C.
succeeded him as
president of Wash-
ington and Lee uni-
versity in Virginia.
airy.
continued With the :
Confederate army
up to the final sur-
render at Appo-
mattox. They took part; in the heaviest
fighting of the Army of Northern Virginia
throughout, several times distinguished
themselves, yet none of them was killed.
They survived to be estimable, and in some
some cases distinguished, citizens of the
United States. “Fitz,” as it was customary
to call Fitz Hugh Lee, is now the governor
of Virginia.
Another veto ii among Lee’s officers was
Gen. W. B. To inform. He also was a for-
- ; mer United States
ofiicer.
Taliaferro was. a
native of Virginia.
He had been one of
Lee’s starichcst
fighters, and was
severely wounded
at Groveton during
the Pope campaign.
brigade be-
longed to Stonewall
.3 Jackson’s famous
» \ “Foot Cavalry,”
can. TALIAFERRO. and ' had done no
less hard marching than fighting.
Geri. Richard H. Anderson, division com-
mander iii Longstreet’s cor , bad, like all the
others, parted through the ordeal of fighting.
He had aided in the capture of Harper’s
Ferry, had been sharply engaged at Antie-
tam, and now with the rest awaited the shock
of battle at Fredericksburg.
Gen. Richard H. Anderson was a South
Carolinian, a. graduate of tho Uiritcd States
Military academy in 1842. He served in
Mexico. When the first probabilities of war
began to be talked of he resigned from the
United States army in March, 1801. He err-
tered the Confederate service as soon as it
came into existence and shortly became a
brigadier general. He was wounded at Air-
tietzim, though not mortally like his name-
sake, Gen. G. T. Anderson.
The Confederates always spoke of their
army under Lee’s immediate commandos the
Army of Northern Virginia, just as the force
opposed to them was designated tin‘oughcut
the war as the Army of the Potomac.
GEN. W. H. 1". LEE.
TOPOGRAPHY.
Ige’s plan for the battle of Frederic ksbuig
was at (nice simple and admirable. Long-
etreet‘s corps had been the first to arrive on
the ground, and it occupied the left, with
Gen. Richard II. Anderson on the extreme
left. Stonewall Jackson was on the right.
and the forces of the two gained in the center
and encircled Fredericksburg.
To understand the fight fully, glance attire
accompanying map. Five miles below Fred-
cricksburg the little Massaponax river
flowed iirto tho Ruppaharrrrock from the west.
A ridge of hills sloped down to the Rappal
liairuock above the Massaporrax, running
from the northwest. Five miles above the
Mossaponax the ridge retreats from the river
far enough to leave a plain, and upon this
plain the town of Fredericksburg was built.
raconarcirsnupc 'DATTLE Guerrero.
Below the town the ridge again"npproaches -
close-to the river. Behind the first: range Of,
hills ’airother rose, as if both were built by
nature for the planting of batteries for the
protect-ion of Fredericksburg. Burnsidé
could not have selected a worse point for at-
tack or Leeabettcr- one for defense. The
railroad from Richmond to the Potorrruc
river pamed through the tows.
Lee had 78,000 nrerr after Jackson joined
iriiii. These began to throw up earthworks
in a crescent six miles long, from the Massa-
pouax to above Fredericksburg. They
worked with a will and soon had built those
formidable f ortificutious against which Burn-
side’s hapless hosts were to dash themselves
like waves against a granite rock.
Nearest the Ibrppnhrmnock. on the north of
tire Confederateleft, was Taylor‘s hill, about
which R. H. Anderson’s men lay. Next- came
Mnrye‘s bill, which gained fatal renown in
the battle. Here were others of Longstreet's
men, Hill, Ransom and McLaws. Across
Marye‘s bill 11111 a stone wall, iert‘acing the
_ bill. Next came Telegraph hill, the highest
of all. Here Leo stood and directed opera-
tions in person. For this reason the crest is
now called Lee’s hill, and as such is pointed
out to the visitor. Next after McLaws came
Hood’s division on the right. Still farther to
the right lay Jackson’s men, A. P. Hill,
Early and Taliaferro. D. H. Hill’s command
was upon the extreme right as a reserve.
$0, on the morning of Dec. 10, 1862, lay the
Confederate army awaiting the Federal ud-
vance. Stafford heights, occupied by Burn-
side’s artillery on the opposite side of the
Rappnhanrrock, were higher than the hills on
the Confederate side, but these, again, were
so far distant as to be practically out of
range of the Union guns.
Lorigstreet says Lee’s army had twenty
days to prepare
for the battle, and
they made good
use of the time.
Marye's bill was
the best point. of
lookout, and to
the Confederates
stationed there
Was assigned the
task of watching
the opposite shore, ’
and announcing to
Lee’s army when
the 'first crossing . ~
should beattempt~ it. n. ANDERSON.
ed. Burnside had prepared pontoon bridges
Dec. 11 was the day be fixed for the crossing.
That morning, before daylight, the bridges
were brought down to the shore and
the engineers setto work to construct them.
As'tlie dawn broke, boorrii boom! went on
uiisbotted cannon from Maryc’s heights, tell-
‘ing Lee and his men that the "time was come.
Barksdale’s sharpshootcrs within the town of
Fredericksburg begun firing on the bridge
builders. ‘They prevented the completion of
the bridges. Tire batteries from Stafford
heights were then trained upon Fredericks~
burg. They battered it down, yet the sharp-
shooters were not dislodged. Then Union
volurrteersto cross the river in open hurts
and drive out the slinrpshootors were called
for. This‘was done with the loss of 300 men,
and the Federals took possession of the river-
front of Fredericksburg,.Dec. 11. That oven-
ing and the next day Sumner-’8 and Frank-
lin’s grand divisions cromed, leaving part of
Hooker’s center grand division on tho Fal-
mouth side. '
FREDERICKSBURG.
The battle of Fredericksburg took place
Dec. 13. It was a. disastrous day to the
Union arms. Bumside’s plan of attack was
for Sumner and Franklin to storm the forti-
ilcd Confederate heights above the town, all
along the line,-und carry them by assault.
In the midst of a dense fog, Dec. 12, Sum-
' , ricr‘s grand division had crossed at the upper
‘ ' pontoon on the right, Franklin’s below on the
left. The First. Second, Sixth and N intb corps
were the, troops that had crossed. They were
commanded respectively "by Gena. Reynolds,
Couch, W. F. Smith and Wilicox. They
formed their lives parallel to the diseased-rt
Gen. Slende's div-Lion of the First} corps,
which was at right angles to it. Gen. Double-
day‘s division was stationed asareserve in
the rear of Meade on the left.
The fogs of Dec. 12 continued to the 13th.
Added to this, the Weather, for Virginia, was
bitterly cold. It. was the ”St experience of
some of Lee’s soldiers with a northern winter,
and the night of the 12th some Confederate
seirtincls froze at; their posts.
lr‘iedei-ioksburg is another of the battles of
the civil war about which there has been
much dispute. It is said on tho orro hand
that Burnsidc’s order to Franklin as to the
beginning of the fight was ambiguous in mean-
ing. 0n the other, Gen. Franklin has been
blamed for not pushing the fight solidly on
the Federal left, at; Hamilton’s crossing.
After crossing the Rappnhairnock, Franklin
was directed by Burirsidc‘s order to keep his
whole corrrrrrnrrd in positicm. for a rapid move-
ment down the old Richmond road. Burn-
side wasby no means so well informed of the
strength of the force opposed to him as Leo
seems to have been about; Burnside's’ army.
Franklin‘s corps began the fight early in
the morning, Dec. 13, With Gen. George G.
Meade iii the advance. There were two lines
of Confederate fortifications along the heights.
Franklin‘s attack was on the Confederate
right, against Stonewall Jackson. A fearful
storm of shot and shell met the Federals. A.
P. Hill’s advarrce‘COnfederato litre was driven
back, however, but Gregg, Early and Stuart
closed in and repelled charge after charge.
More than 40 per cent. of Meade’s command
fell. Reynolds came to his aid with re—crr~
for-cements, and Reynolds lost 4,000. But
they finally drove the Corrfwlcrates back
somewhat to Mossaponax crdgk The fight
between the Federal left an,~ Confederate
right continued ewe hours. j 3; ' ' '
Sumner-’1: grand division, formed the Fed-
eral right. To it fell ' the tub): of storming
Marye’s bill, the most formidable of the Cori-
feder-ute works. Lee’s officers say that when
their general discovered that. Burnside was
about to attack his works on Fredericksburg
heights he was greatly rejoicéd. He felttlrut he
could hold them well nigh against the world.
Longstrcet‘s chief ( f artillery said to him the
morning of Dec. 1 , as they looked over the
ground in front of Marye’s hill:
“General, we cover that ground now so
well that we will climb it as with a fine tooth
courb. A chicken could not live on that field
when we open on it.” ‘» “I .
There is one fact connected with this time
which renders it exceedingly difficult to get
at; the exact truth in its history. The reports
and accounts giventby army officers and con-
temporary- correspondenté are manifestly
tinged with the pro or anti-McClellan parti-
sanship. The position of neither Pope rror
Burnside as commander of the Army of the
Potomac was a pleasant one, and that fact
needs to be borne in mind constantly.
Brig. Gen. J. F. Reynoldsrommanded the
First corps in Franklin's left grand division.
Franklin considered that three divisions of
Reynolds" corps wet-e'sufiicient to carry out
Burnside’s order, which be understood to
mean that he should make a. reccirnoissarrco
rather than a serious attack. To Reynolds was
deputed this task, and to his corps belonged
Meade‘s division.
Gen. 0. 0. Howard commanded the Second
division in Sum— .
ner‘s right grand
division, and led
one of the awful
charges against
Murye’s hill.
0 l i v e r O t is
Howard was born
in Maine in 1830,
and was graduated ,.~
at West Pornt iii 3/
,9.
structor in mathe-
matics at the Mili-
tary academy for
some time after his graduation. He was
actively engpged in fighting from the be-
ginning of the civil war. He commanded a
brigade at Bull Run, and was made a briga‘
(her general in September, 1861. The “empty
sleeve? familiar in his portraits has been car.
r'red since 1862 at the battle of 'Fair Oaks.
where he lost the right arm that filled it. At.
Antietam he was in command of Sumner-ls
corps. In 1863 be had command of the
Eleventh corps.
Gen. Howard distin ished himself at
Gettysburg. . Afterwar he was ordered
west, particrpated in the fights of Lookout
Mountain and Missionary Ridge and helped
relieve Knoxville. During Sherman’s march
to the sea. and upto the. ' eof Johnston’s
GEN. HOWARD.
. surrender Howard comma‘h’ ed‘the right win
of the army. After the war he was Unitei
States commissioner of the freedmen’s bureau.
He was presideirtl‘of Howard Universrty for
Freedmen for a time, and also served as spe-
cial commissioner to the Indians. He has
been especially employed in government edu-
cational mid benevolent enter rises; In 1886
he was promoted to boone of be three major
generals permitted by law iii the United
States army. He is at present in command
of the department of the Pacific.
Stoneman’s corps of Hooker’s grand divis-
ion was pushed .up behind the divisions of
Franklin on the Federal left at Fredericks—
burg in time to aid in the repulse of the Con-
federates there. His advantage was not
pushed by Franklin. He considered that his
orders from Burnside did not justify him in
doing so. Burnside, in the course of the
day, sent: an order for hiitr to attack on the
front, but by the time it reached Franklin it;
was too near dark for it to be obeyed, the
latter general considered. So the fighting of
the left grand division at Frederickshurg was
over.
MARYE’S HiLL-.
Sumner’s right grand division was to do the
' fighting on Franklin’s right. Surrrrrer’s task
was to assault and
carry the frown;
iug crest. of Mn-
‘ rye‘s hill. Tobegirr
the tight he sent
G c n . W. H.
F r e rr ch ’5 corn;
tnand, inimediut'dl
ly followed by that;
of Hancock, “two '
divisions that had
never turned their v”
bucks to the err- "
errry,” as be said GEN. FRENCH.
afterward. It is rather a strange whinr of
fate that the name of so brave and accom-
plished a general as lVillium Henry French
should be so little known to his countrymen.
Some of the bloodiest fighting of this or
any war was done by his and Hancock’s divi
siorrs that. day at Fredericksburg. They lost
i'ully tuo-iifths of their men. -
‘W. 11. French was born in Maryland 'in
1815. lie. was a raduuto of I'Vest Point, and
fought in the In iari war in Florida in 1837;
also in the Mexican war. He was first in
«:orrrrrraud at Key'lVest during the civil war,
but was transferred to the Army of the Poto-
mac. He became a major general of volun-
beers in 1862. After the war he was in the
artillery service on the Pacific coast. Gen.
French died iir 1881.
As the fog lifted in the course of the fore-
rroorr Langstreet beheld from the heights of
Mar-ye’s hill French and Hancock advancing
iir two columns to the assault. They came by
two parallel roads, the Orange plank road
and the Telegraph road. The Telegraph road
led to Richmond.
A deep ravine separated the advancing
troops from the foot of Marye's hill. The
Telegraph road skirted along the foot of
Marye‘s hill. The road. indeed, had beeii‘cntl
out of the bill’s side and was twenty-five feet
wide. On one side of it was the hill, upon the
other a high stone wall had been built. This
wall was as high as a man’s shoulders.
THE TERRIBLE STONE WALL.
In every great battle there is some point
about which the slaughter is thickest. At
Fredericksburg it was the stonewall upon
the outer edge of Telegraph road. Behind
this wall the road was procticailyasu‘nken
care. It. was quito invisible to the advancing
Federals. ‘
THE STONE WALL.
Ianrgstreet perceived at once the advantage
of this position. Behind the high wall be
stationed some 2,500 soldiers, under command
of Certs. Ker-show and '1‘. R. R. Cobb. Thus,
like Arrtietarrr, li‘redericksburg, too, had its
sun ken road.
Up toward the fatal stone wall and the
sunken road (lime the columns of the Union
ai'rrry. 'i‘lrey massed upon the narrow plain at
the foot of Itiaryo's bill. Above them, the
moment they came within range, the Confed-
crate artillery upon the heights poured but
he into them. It cut great holes in their
rarrl:s~»;nps which could be seen a mile,
Longstrcet says. In a moment the gaps were
closed again, however, and the devoted men
marched on.
Half the narrow plain at the foot of
Mur'ye’s hill was crossed, when, 10! it seener
us if all the tlrundcrs and lightrrings of heaven
burst upon them. A living $11ka of tire
blinded their eyes, on infernal din roared in
their ears, and when it; passed hundreds of
bravo ruerr lay upon that plain, never more to
see or lrearouglrtfwith earthly eyes or ears
again.
The deadly lightnings shot forth from
Longstreet‘s hidden guns behind the stone
wall in iko':“-'~m road. .
. abandoned him and
Agurirfi ttat' rirc no living thing i-itniltl
stand. French’s soldiers fell back. Ilarr-
cook’s canto on gulluntly. Another sheet of
living fire, another infernal rour,uird lrrrxr-
dreds of other bodies were piled upon these
that already lay trporr the ghastly plain. One
brigade after one her come on, each in its
turn to be iuowrr dorm and~lrurlcd hack.
Those who saw the assault of Marye’s lrill oi:
the sunken road one and :ill speak of it as a
succession of waves of living human beings
In turn dashed and broken against; the str tic
wall. .
After French’s and Hancock’s divisions were
repulsed, Howard’s threw itself against 1.er
wall. It, too, was driven back, broken and
bleeding. That finished the available strength
of the Second corps, Gen. Couch’s. ’l‘iierr
.Stui'gis’ division of the Ninth corps was
ordered forward. The charge at Balaklnvri
is famed in history. More than twenty
charges like Baluklavo. would not have coni-
pussed the destruction wrought before the
stone wall at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862.
Six distinct waves of troops assaulted tho
worksand fell back. At one monrerrtvLee,
watching the fight from Lee's lriil, expressed
apprehension to Longsti-eet that the position
might. be taken, so never ending seemed to
be the litres of blue that advanced against it.
Longstreet replied:
“General, if you put every man now on the
other side of the Potomac on that field to ap-
proach me over the same line, and give me
plenty of ammunition, I will kill them all be-
fore they reacli my line.” ,
Samuel Davis Sturgis was born in Penti-
sylvania in 1822. Graduated at West. Point,
was in the Mexican ‘ ‘ '
war and was cap-
-tured at Buena
Vista, but: was ex-
changed. Hc won
the rank of captain
fighting Indians on ‘5 ‘
the frontier. Attire
beginning of the
war of ’61 he was?
in command of Fort r; '
Smith, Ark. Hero ’
every, one of his 1'"
subordinate officers
S
entered the Confed— GEN- stones.
crate service. Sturgis remained in the Union
servicé,‘atrd took an active part in the war
from the first. Beginning with Lyons in
Missouri, he at length came east and bad
charge of the fortifications at Washington,
then commnrrded a. division in the Potomac
army. He was afterward chief of cavalry iii
the department Of Ohio. Ilis rank at Fred-
ericksburg was that of brigadier general of
volunteers. Sturgis’ division furnished its
quota. of dead men to the fatal stone wall,
1,028 out of two brigades, and fell back.
Griffin's division of the Fifth corps fol-
lowed Sturgis,advoucing gallantly. It lost
818 men and retreated behind a knoll. Sixth
and last, Humphreys’ division of Hooker’s
corps was ordered to the assault. Hooker,
seeing the uselessnem of this slaughter, begged
Burnside to countermand the order, but
Burnside replied: “The crest must be car;-
ried too-night,” and ordered Hooker across
with two divisions, Humphreys’ and Sykes’.
Humphreys is said to have been the ubiest
officer on the field of Fredericksburg. By
the time be advanced on Marye’s hill the
ammunition of the Confederate artillery
upon the heights was exhausted. and thus
one grilling fire to which his predecemors
had been exposed was stopped. His men
gained a point some yards in advance of
those who had gone before.
Perceiving the uselessuem of firing at the
wall, Humphrey's ordered his men to charge
bayonets. They prepared to do so, though it;
was hopeless, when the same sheet; of flame
flashed into their faces,nnd spite of all efforts
to rally them they turned backward. Nearly
half of their 4,000 fell" in fifteen minutes.
Then night closed.
Andrew A. Humphreys was a Pennsylva-
nian, a graduate of ‘
West Point, and a
famous fighting
man. He was
Meade’s chief of
staff when that
general command-
ed the Potomac
army.
Thus French,
Hancock, Howard.
Sturgis, Griffin
and Hum bre-
charged succgssivm
13: upon Murye’s
Heights, and suc-
cessively their men
were mowu down unmatmrnms.
like blades of grass before areaper. Night
only closed the slaughter. “’hen it settled
down over that smoking, bleeding field there
were 15,000 fewer effective soldiers of the
Army of the Potomac than there had been in
the morning.
Burnside wished to renew the contest next
day, Dec. 14, but his officers dissuaded him
from it. That night he crossed back to Fal-
rnouth, withdrew his whole army to Stafford
heights and left: Lee to possess Fredericks-
burg. what; there was left of it. He himself
passed the night in a. state of mental agony
hard to describe.
The battle of Fredericksburg was fought
on a Saturday. Burnside had 100,000 effective
men in his army, Lee 78,000 in his fortified
heights. The Union loss was about 15.000;
the Confederate, 5,400. On the Confederate
side Gems. Gregg and T. R. R. Cobb were
killed; on the Union side, Gens. George
Bayard and C. Feger Jackson. Burnside
had resolved to cross the Rappahaiinock
again below Fi‘ederlcksburg. The move-
ment was to commence Dec. 30. when sud-
denly Burnside received an order from Presi-
dent Lincolrr to make no general movement
without first informing him of it. While
Burnside had been preparing to cross the
Rappahannock, several Of his generals had
been to the president and represented to him
that they thought Burnside's plans were
ruinous folly.
So nothing was done till Jan. 20, 1863.
Burnside had decided to make another at-
tempt to cross the Rappalrnirnock, six miles .
above Fredericksburg. But it seemed that
not only his own officer-s, but the fates, were
against him. His army had no sooner started
up the river thana great storm set in. Show
rairiarrd sleet came down all together an
rendered the march iiri ible. The soldiers
said it; scented as if the ttom had fallen out
of the roads.
The troops could not go forward. A few
iirdecd reached the river after long delay,
only to find the Confederates ready for tlrem
at. the crossing.
The expedition was a failure. Officers
of the. Army of tire Potorrracs ke of it de-
risivcly as the Mud March. urnside was
next relieved from command of the army “at
his own request." the government records
say. Whatever his military capacity or the
luck of it, irowris one of tire mostunselfisb
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AT PEI: GENT.
THREE FARJIS FOR SALE.
Termini-iris to Heat froth S3 T0 $15 Per Month.
-—STORE T0 RENE-—
Insurance Placed. in Old Reliable Companies.
——rrr:.vrs connecrau— lyil.
rrraerarvr‘rran"non rls '
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Graranteerl Marinara
()I‘ be New England Loan and Trust (Io.
'i‘lrisis our: of tire Oldest, ltlusl conservative and
successful rristrruilmrs dealing in such securities.
EICVEL year's'expericucc \r'riunut a dollar of loss
toiuvcsrors. '
Each $100,000“! debentured‘ls secured by $102,-
000 of mortgages, assigned to and deposited with
the b‘armcrs’ Loan and Trust (30., New York. trus-
t\ee." Interest payable at Bank of New Nork,
.'. l. A. . ’
Mortgages from best Corn-Producing regions of
Iowa, Kansas, bebi‘aska and Missouri.
For full information enquire Oi till
-7... m .. assume;
6 and i not on t, Fern Mortgages
—or-‘ ’l‘llE—
liq-enable Mortgage 00., Kansas City.
Capital, $1,000,000. _s;,ouo,eno paid up.
Principal and interest Guaranteed.
Security from three to six times the amount of
loan. Coupon iiurids. interest payable in New
York. Also, , lytla
. .1
Six per cent. Dehenturr- Honda. of the
Midrllusex "lurking (.‘nln‘pnny, of
Middleton-kn, Conn.
Organizedurrdcrtiicbatrkrnglaws of the State
of Connecticut. Coupons payable in New York.
It. ll. ORA U FUND,
Agent, 81 Main Street, Norwuik.
Jililhl hi ATKINSON,
Wholesale and Retail Denier itr
Harness, Blankets.
Trunks, Bugs,
Sole handler and Shoe Findings, and Boot
and Shoe Uppcrs.
Corner of Fairfield Ave. and Middle Street
- Bridgeport, Conn."
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Ask your druggist for it and your physician
about ll.
ly-iS
1‘. stands for l’ulque, which. “by Joe,”
(Irrrcs lx'lllxii‘i' J itUL‘L’LES. don’t cher know?
i'l‘ A Ni'i‘lYlL-iii PRODUCT AND NOT A
PATENT MEDICINE.
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it cures all Kidney Troubles and is the only"
known specific for Bright’s Disease. in cases of
Dyspepsia, insomnia: nobility and excessive use
or Tobacco, it will he found of great value.
it. is a wonderful tissue buildiei‘. giving strength
to the Weak. Get our descriptive circular and
read what reputable physicians from your Vicinity
say about it. lfyour druggis! does not have our
circularaserrd postal and we will iriuilyou one free.
Retail Price, 50 eta. oer Tlllli‘l Bottle.
MEX [CAN I’ULQL'E COMPANY.
3min 9-: Hudson Street, Jersey City, S. J.
. 'rur: catamaran
Prof. Ashborn’s
NNMINDI’S EMBOSSINE lilLl
——on—
Transparent Paint,
—--IS ON SALE :\'l‘—-——
J .. T. PROWITT’S,
47 lialn Street, llnrrrallr, Goon.
Tire 01in Paint Renewer in
' Existence.
It Restores- {he Lustre of
0M. Point and gives [.5
(m Elastic Bar/y.
BE'if you couteiriplate painting or repainting
your house or other pro,erty it Will pay you in.
exarrrlrre the merits of
Numindi’s Embossing Oil or
Transparent Paint
Before trying any other.
r'” '
1. Pretritt,
Sole Agent for Norwalk and
Vicinity,
4'7 MAIN STREET. 1,2.
Glover A Olsen,
_ NoAZWallSi, toenail,
Leaders of the Shoe Trade
Wish to ca]. your attention to a few of the many
styles of shoes carried iii stock by them.
OUR LADIES’
Fennel Kin, Hand-Marie Wattlenntrast,
A .‘iurve 3f Corrrl‘ort and Ease.
[lot $5 Harri-Marie Prenolr Kiri Welt
For ladies wear are perfect. in every respect and
as good it slioc as any sold still.
For $5.50,
Our Ladies" Hand-Made French Kid ’l‘urti Slices
made by Benedict .r (30., of New Canaan. are the
acme of style and be:irrty.arrd positively cannot be
excelied at any price.
Oh! Oh! for $3,
'i‘liose Noimy Little French Kid, Hand-Made
Oxfords with patent leather tips are admired by
all that have seen and worn tlrerrr. You must eat
and see them.
For $2.50,
A Perfect )irsses’Waukenphast for sgroo! or a
walking shoe cannot be equalled.
W‘In :r rvordourlirieof shoes is complete in
every respect.
We have the beat me oi
CHILDREN'S SCHOOL SHOES
liver shown in town and at prices from the
cheapest to the best.
Glover 85 Olsen,
42 Wall Street,
NORWMK.
GENERAL MARKET. ‘1
Meat, Fish, Vegetables, do.-
LOCKWOOD Ar ANDREWS.
MAIN STREET.
Allklnds of the best qualities of Meats, Fish
Clams, Vegetables. etc, are kept constantly on;
hand. and will be sold by us as low as can be pro-
cured at any market in Norwalir. We intend to
prove to our customers that we deserve their
patronage by fair and generous dealing.
ly40 LOCKWOOD it ANDREWS.
‘ I WANT EVERYBODY
——TO come in and look over my stock of—
Mon.u.ments
-—~-ANo——
AHEADSTONES
.llefore they buy anything of the kind. A selection
can no made from them much better than from a
photograph or pencil sketch. Respectfully,
P. W. Bates.
ifs
,J. P. NIGKERSON,
For the time being at
No. 7 East Side of Water St,
I-‘Oliif DOORS I-‘ROII WALL STREET.
NOR WALK , ‘— — - CONN .
STAPLE AND CHOICE
G R 0 C E R I E S .
Family Supplies,
of tire freshest and best quality that the ‘\' '
. . . , . en
1 ork market. affords in groceries. also
VEGETABLES & FRUITS
in their seasons at
MODERATE PRICES.
Tire patronage of my friends and former cus
tumors is respectfully soliclrcd: H31
.1. I’. NICKERSON.
'1 clap/none Call.
RIVERSIDE
EEMETERY ASSUGIATIUN.
The grounds of this Association are
situated in the Borough of Nor-walk, just
north cf the Union Mills, between Spring
Hill Road and Riverside Avenue, and
may be reached by good and well-kept
roads from all directions, The cemetery
is divided into twenty—two sections. with
Broad Avenues
and suitable streets, and the cont-our of
the land is such that every taste may be
gratified in the selection of plots. The
avenues are so arranged as to afford
an almost
Continuous Drive .
to all the different sections, and are
crossed in every direction by the streets
so that carriages may reach every plot in
the. entire cemetery. Air Elegant
Receiving Vault
of large capacity, and fitted with all
modern improvements, is near the
entrance gate.
Capacity.
Tire eirtire space is not plotted, but.
52 Vault Lots, reservations tot-'517 single.
interments, and 2,102 Burial Pets are ‘
now offered for sale at prices very favor—
able to purchasers.
MAP~
Maps of the Cemetery may be seen at
tho ofiice of Mn. ENos KELLOGG, tire
S"per'intcndeirt, on the premises; at the
office of HON. JAMES W. l-IvA'rT, at iire
Horse Railroad Depot; and at the office
of Mn. JOHN H. Lrorir, at South Nor.
walk. tf5
rerun L. ilUlGUH.
FLORIST Ir NU 8+ YMAN,
UNION AVENUE,
North of Norwalk Cemetery,
Dealer in In Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and Ornamen
tal Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers alway
on hand and all sorts of designs in Flowers arranged
0 order. 41y2
Grading and lie—filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
Mitchell’s
Model Market,
HARbENBROOK BUILDING,
NORW'ALK, CONN.
The Best of Home Dresser] Beef.
All kinds of
Mann‘s, VEGETABLES, FRUITS. &c.
Prices Reasonable.
1126 II. \V. MITCHELL, Proprietor.
R e m e m b e r 8
The Best Meals in Nor-walk
ARE SOLD AT--—-
WIXSON'S MARKET, ON THE BRIDGE,
——ANn F0". rue—
Lowest Prices for Cash.
PLATES OF BEEF, 5 cents per II): CORNEI)
BEEF, from 5 to 16 cents per II). I will not be
rrndersold for the Best Qundtics of Meat. , Poultry
Drawn to Order. iyl
James E. Wines-on.
27 Wall Street.
BEING UNABLE TO MANUFACTURE
HARNESS
'l'o compete with large conceres, 1 have taken
tireagency Of one of the the oldest and largest
establishments in the state for the sale of
HARNESS, SADDLES, HALTERS,
SURCINGLES, COLLARS. &c.
I shall also make .
[UN]? IL-i 131171138 to ORDER
As usual as the old stand,
NO. '7 WATER S'I‘BEE'Z‘,
Where 1 will keep a regular line of Whip
sponges, Chamois, llnnkets, ltobes, Feed Bags.
Traveling Bags, etc.
J. F. PECKII'ELL.
Norwalk Chronicler