. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . PHOTOCRAPH TAKEN ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER AFTER INSTRUCTION OF BRIDGE TO FREDERICKSBURG IN l862. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ALONG THE SUNKEN ROAD AT FREDERICKSBURG AFTER THE BATTLE IN 1863 CONFRONTED by sheets offlame, the Union Army madeits attack on Fredericksburgon the morning of the thir-teenth of December, in 1862. TheConfederates occupied the Heightswith a line five and a half miles longand fortified with earthworks andartillery. The Federals movedthrough the town under a heavy fireof Confederate batterie
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . PHOTOCRAPH TAKEN ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER AFTER INSTRUCTION OF BRIDGE TO FREDERICKSBURG IN l862. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ALONG THE SUNKEN ROAD AT FREDERICKSBURG AFTER THE BATTLE IN 1863 CONFRONTED by sheets offlame, the Union Army madeits attack on Fredericksburgon the morning of the thir-teenth of December, in 1862. TheConfederates occupied the Heightswith a line five and a half miles longand fortified with earthworks andartillery. The Federals movedthrough the town under a heavy fireof Confederate batteries. MaryesHill was protected at its base by a stone wall, back of which was asunken road, occupied by two bri-gades of Confederate infantry. Thecharging columns of the Union Armywere rushing across the open groundunder a fierce artillery fire when sud-denly they were confronted by a rainof lead from the sunken road back ofthe stone wall. Nearly half of thecharging column was shot down andthe remainder fell back. Five thou-sand more charged in the same man- ner. Some of them approached with-in twenty yards of the wall, but fellback, leaving two thousand of theirnumber on the field. Twe
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