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Title: Thirteenth regiment of New Hampshire volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865: a diary covering three years and a day
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Thompson, S. Millet, 1838-
Subjects: United States Army New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 13th (1862-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories New Hampshire -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of New Hampshire Library

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s House with rebel batteries to the south of it. B. Orange Turnpike. C. Plank road. D. Telegraph road with stone bank-walls. E. New street opened since the battle, and leading to Cemetery gate. F. Bank and ditch of unfinished railroad. G. Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad. H. Hazel Run. L. Oak tree with Spring near it. I. Gen. Gettys Division formed for the assault.K. K. Point near angle in Telegraph road, near which were the rebelbatteries A., aimed at by Gen. Gettys men in the assault, andthe little field, on the bluff, reached by the Thirteenth. M. Brick house — as near as can be located. N. Vicinity of Lees HiU. Gen. Getty told the writer that Gen. Hookers corps was on the right ofthe Ninth Corps — in which the 13th — and that the place where Gen.Hooker exposed himself during the day was at the cut on the R. & F.Railroad, just to the right of the place where Gen. Gettys Divisionformed for the assault. This railroad cut was enfiladed by the rebelbatteries on Lees Hill.
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MARYES HEIGHTS, December 13, 1862.From an old print seen by the writer in Fredericksburg in May 1886. 1862 BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. 49 sition on the grassy bank, or on the ojien ground exposes us to the flyingpieces of many of the enemys shells intended for the cannoneers of ourbatteries on the Falmouth (or Staiford) bluffs, across the river, but burstingshort of their mark ; while many shells from our own guns, on thosevery bluffs, bursting as soon as they leave the guns, pour their jagged piecesdown into the river, and upon the hither bank among our men. Thewater in the river is in a constant state of disturbance made by them.We are about one mile from the enemys batteries, and within four orsix hundred yards, and directly under the muzzles, of our own guns, andare thus exposed to the incessant fire of both. All day long the shells,hundreds of them, pass to and fro over our heads. Many men in ourBrigade are wounded here by pieces of shells, and their lead rings. Peter Smithwick, si

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