. History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers: its camps, marches and battles . ionof the rebels to call the next day. Sunday and Monday, fourteenth and fifteenth, wc layupon the plains inviting an attack, and Monday night thearmy was withdrawn across the river to its old position,in perfect order and leaving no material for the enemy. BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. 125 The night was favorable for such a movement, rainy anddark, with a high wind blowing, which drowned the noiseof rumbling Avheels and tramping columns, and the firstintimation the rebels received of our departure, was whe
. History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers: its camps, marches and battles . ionof the rebels to call the next day. Sunday and Monday, fourteenth and fifteenth, wc layupon the plains inviting an attack, and Monday night thearmy was withdrawn across the river to its old position,in perfect order and leaving no material for the enemy. BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. 125 The night was favorable for such a movement, rainy anddark, with a high wind blowing, which drowned the noiseof rumbling Avheels and tramping columns, and the firstintimation the rebels received of our departure, was whenthe morning light revealed to them the vmoccupied plains,and the long lines of blue - clad soldiers disappearing overthe heights upon the other side of the river. But themovement did not surprise the rebels more than it didsome of our own pickets, who in the morning foundthemselves entirely without reserves, and many of whomarrived at the rivers bank just in season to cross uponthe pontoons before they were taken up. CHAPTER XIV. r A I, M O U T H A > D > E AV H A M P S II I K E .. HE new year, 1863, opened upon thearmy at Falmouth, passing its time inreviews and drills, and preparing againstthe rains and snows of winter, until thetwentieth of January, when the move-ment familiarly known as Burnsidesmud scrape was commenced. had, the day before, issuedan address to the army, informing themthat they were about to be led againstthe enemy, and calling upon them tofight with all their old spirit and enthusiasm. On the twentieth the division left camp and marchedabout two miles in the direction of Falmouth, where,after shivering for hours in a cold rain, the men, at nineoclock in the evening, were marched back to camp. Onthe morning of the twenty-first the division was again onthe move, and marched about six miles in the direction ofthe fords at which Gen. Burnside designed to cross the F^VLMOUTH AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. 127 army, encamping in dense pine woods. The day
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