. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE DETAINED CI XS Fredericksburg, February, 1SC3. In the foregnjuml, luuking fromwhat is approximately the same position as the opening picture,are three guns of Tylers Connecticut battery. It was from allalong this ridge that the town had suffered its bombardmentin December of the pre\iousyear. Again the armies wereseparated by the Rappahan-nock River. There was a newcommander at the head of theArmy of the Potomac—Gen-eral Hooker. The plunderedand deserted town now heldby the Confederates was to bemade the objective of anotheratt
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE DETAINED CI XS Fredericksburg, February, 1SC3. In the foregnjuml, luuking fromwhat is approximately the same position as the opening picture,are three guns of Tylers Connecticut battery. It was from allalong this ridge that the town had suffered its bombardmentin December of the pre\iousyear. Again the armies wereseparated by the Rappahan-nock River. There was a newcommander at the head of theArmy of the Potomac—Gen-eral Hooker. The plunderedand deserted town now heldby the Confederates was to bemade the objective of anotherattack. The heights beyondwere once more to be assaulted;bridges were to be all to no purpose. Thisground of much contention wasdeserted some time before Leeadvanced to his invasion ofPennsylvania. Very slowly theinhabitants of Fredericksburg. ilJi*^J^a^s:^■ ^--/-^ »,*,*«a.*-^.,5:Si^l had returned to their ruined homes. The town a vastFederal cemetery, the dead being buriiil in gardens andbackyards, for during its occupancy almost every dwelling hadbeen turned into a temporary liospital. After the close of thewar these bodies were gatheredand a National Cemetery wasestablished on Willis Hill,on Marycs Heights, tlic pointsuccessfully defended l)y Leesveterans. Heavy pontoon-boats, each onits separate wagon, were some-times as necessary as food orammunition. At every impor-tant crossing of the many riversthat had to be passed inthe Peninsula Campaign thebridges had been were few places wherethese streams were , therefore, made amost important adjimet to the.\rmv of the Potomac. POXTOOX-BOATS IN TRAN^II
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