Identifier: pictorialhistory00wils (find matches)
Title: The pictorial history of the great Civil War: its causes, origin, conduct and results; embracing full and authentic accounts of its battles by land and sea, with graphic descriptions of heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals; narratives of personal adventure; thrilling incidents; daring exploits; wonderful escapes; life in camp, field, and hospital; adventures at sea; blockade life, etc., etc.; containing carefully prepared biographies of the leading generals and naval commanders of both the North and the South / by John Laird Wilson
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Wilson, John Laird, 1832-1896
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Bryan, Taylor
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. The bridges were all brokendown or burned; and the tiack inmany places was torn up. The Na-tional engineers had succeeded in re-storing the bridges—one of these, builtunder the superintendence of ColonelHaupt over the Potomac Creek, beingfour hundred feet in length and onehundred feet above the water, com-manding especial attention; and theline was put in good working order.Arrangements had been made to crossthe river at Skinkers Neck, twelvemiles below Falmouth, with the viewof turning the Confederate right; butthe ever-vigilant Lee discovered themovement in time to show hims>.lffully prepaied. Burnside was check-mated, and the enterprise was aban-doned. As early as the 2l8t of Novem-ber, Sumner had made a call on thjmayor of Fredericksburg to surrendeithat town ; but the reply was promptlymade that, while it would not be us.^dfor offensive purposes against the Na-tional army, any attempt to occupy itwould be stubbornly resisted. The re-sult of this correspondence was that the
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MAP OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, SHOWING FREDERICKSBURG, CHANCELLORS-VILLE, SPOXTSYLVANIA, THE WILDERNESS, Etc., Etc. PIDLIC LIBIURY ASTOU, UENOX AND THE PONTOONS. 341 inhabitants, dreading a bombardment,for the most j^art left the city, Barks-dales sharpshooters distributing them-selves behind the deserted buildingsnear the river. Meanwhile, Lees army,some 80,000 strong, had been wellV)rought forward; and at the end ofNovember, it lay in a semicircle aroundFredericksburtj, each winor resting onthe river—its right at Port Royal, be-low the city, and its left a short dis-tance above it. His engineers hadconstructed in the rear of the city twolines of fortifications, one mile apart;and the range of hills to his left werealso well fortified. In the meantime the pontoons hadDec. arrived; and Burnside, on the** evening of the 10th, made thenecessary arrangements to have thebridges thrown across early on the fol-lowing morning. About four oclock onthe cold, raw morning of the 11 th of De-cember,

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