. A history of the Forty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . preciation of Surgeon Townsend the enlisted men of the regi-ment presented him with a complete equipment for his horse. On the 10th day of December a rumor circulated throughthe camp that the army was about to move. Later on the rumorwas verified. The verification came in the form of an orderto be ready to move at 4 oclock the next morning with 3 daysrations and 20 extra rounds of ammunition. The preparationscalled for looked like serious business. On Thursday, De-cember n
. A history of the Forty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . preciation of Surgeon Townsend the enlisted men of the regi-ment presented him with a complete equipment for his horse. On the 10th day of December a rumor circulated throughthe camp that the army was about to move. Later on the rumorwas verified. The verification came in the form of an orderto be ready to move at 4 oclock the next morning with 3 daysrations and 20 extra rounds of ammunition. The preparationscalled for looked like serious business. On Thursday, De-cember nth, the reveille sounded at 3 oclock A. M. and pre-parations were made for the start. At 5 oclock musketry andartillery firing were heard at the front. It was afterwardslearned that the firing was occasioned by the Engineers, pro-ceeding to lay pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock RiverThe workmen were driven from their work by the infantry ofthe enemy posted in the streets and buildings of Fredericks-burg. Thereupon the artillery in General Sumners commandopened a furious cannonade upon the city which checked the. FRED D. HILLS. Enlisted at leim Van, X. V., on August T4, 1862, in the 148thN. Y. V. I., hut the company licing a supernumerary one, was trans-ferred tn the 44th X. Y. V. 1., was sent to camp at Albany, X. Y.,and was assigned as new G>. C, which was dubbed the Penn YanCompany. This company joined the 44th Regiment at Antietam, September, 18 On Jan. 31, 18(13, he was made a Sergeant. OnAug. 10, 1803. was tranferred to the LT. S. Signal Corps at WarrentonJunction and was assigned as Sergeant t the headquarters of Major-(icnerul Jiidson Kilpatrick of the 3d Division Cavalry Corps. OnAug. 4, 1S04, Ik- was assigned to the 1st Division Cavalry Corps, com-manded by Major-< leneral Wesley Merritt and then sent to the Shen-andoah Valley. After the campaigns in this Valley his command joinedthe Army of the Potomac in March, 1865. Discharged at close of the
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