. History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers: its camps, marches and battles . herocky gorges and clefts of the precipitous hills, which uponeither side were covered with dense forests, forming aswild a scene as could well be imagined, and it was welldeserving of its name, Wolf Run. Upon the hill com-manding the ford from the south the rebels had erectedtwo rough redoubts, and between these and the creek aline of rifle pits extended tlirough an ahalis of slashedtimber. So precipitous were the hills that in many placestheir ascent was next to impossible, and at night the menof our
. History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers: its camps, marches and battles . herocky gorges and clefts of the precipitous hills, which uponeither side were covered with dense forests, forming aswild a scene as could well be imagined, and it was welldeserving of its name, Wolf Run. Upon the hill com-manding the ford from the south the rebels had erectedtwo rough redoubts, and between these and the creek aline of rifle pits extended tlirough an ahalis of slashedtimber. So precipitous were the hills that in many placestheir ascent was next to impossible, and at night the menof our brigade, camped below the redoubts, beheld thecamp-fires of the remainder of the division, upon thehill, as if they had been huge torches suspended in midair almost directly overhead. We remained at Wolf Run Shoals four days, when wecontinued our march on through Dumfries, which Avasdirectly opposite our camp at Budds Ferry, the precedingwinter, and had then been the goal of our desires, and onthe twenty-eighth we joined the army at Falmouth. CHAPTER XIII. THE BATTLE OF EEEDEKICKSBURG .. ii^OR a fortnight we lay inactive in ourcamp about two miles below Falmouth,although daily expecting a movement, asit was not. thought Buknside would puthis army into winter quarters, even if thedelay ii> the arrival of his pontoons hadenabled the enemy to possess the heightsof Fredericksburg, which he had contem-plated occupying when his rapid move-ment was made from Warrenton. From the steep bluffs upon the Fal-mouth side of the river we could look down upon the cityof Fredericksburg, and with a glass could even read thenames upon the signs in the business streets. Groups ofsight - seers collected daily upon these commanding posi-tions and watched the rebels moving about the town oracross the fields which afterwards became so memorableas the scene of Sumners furious assault. Under Gen. Buenside the army was organized into 118 SECOND N. II. REGIMKNT. three Grand Divisions, Sumner commanding
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