. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. and who regrettedthat she did not have a dozen more to give to her country. Oppositethe Lacv House, stretching along the river bank, lay the quaint, old, andnow doubly historic town of Fredericksburg; home of Washington atone time, tomb of his mother to this day. In and about this little citywar was soon and long to rage, devastating its quiet streets, and makingone vast cemetery of all the surrounding country. Within the NationalCemetery at this place now are camped the sleeping soldiers of t
. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. and who regrettedthat she did not have a dozen more to give to her country. Oppositethe Lacv House, stretching along the river bank, lay the quaint, old, andnow doubly historic town of Fredericksburg; home of Washington atone time, tomb of his mother to this day. In and about this little citywar was soon and long to rage, devastating its quiet streets, and makingone vast cemetery of all the surrounding country. Within the NationalCemetery at this place now are camped the sleeping soldiers of thegreat war. This harvest was reaped from a hundred fields: sheavesfrom the Burnside slaughter on the 13th of December, 1862; fromChancellorsville, Salem Church, Maryes Heights, and the battles ofthe Wilderness. There certainly seems a divine propriety in the planto make this comprehensive field a National Park, the same as at Gettys-burg and elsewhere. There is no other single tract, lying within thescope of the Thirty-fourths two-years campaign, that has so much in-terest for this old
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