December 12, 1862 (continued)
Title
December 12, 1862 (continued)
Creator
Gordon, Stephen
Date
1862-12-12
Contributor
Stewart, James
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Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, FRSP 3983-3987, FRSP 15960-15961.
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(12th Friday (continued))
thirty feet deep and about twice as wide. the first regiment was just behind us. It had been smoky and a heavy fog all day but has cleared up about this time and we had no sooner got in this gully than a rebel battery opened fire upon us I suppose the brass battery that we passed but their shot fell short and some of them struck in the gully just where we were one man in the first was struck about the head and one of the twenty Third had both his jaws broken but no one in this regiment was hurt. They kept firing and the shell falling around us untill [sic] dark. The whole regiment and all that was in the gully laid down flat on the ground about dark we was ordered to fall in and march about three or four hundred yards down the gully and there we laid down for [illegible]. At we was ordered to build small fires while we laid in line in the orchard some of us went out a little ways to the right and saw the bodies of three rebels that had been killed the day before. they laid stretched out on the ground. their clothes were of coarse grey cloth but they was almost new. One was shot in the neck with a shell the other two was shot in the body with rifle balls, the sight of these men made me sicker than anything that i had seen since I had been in the service.
thirty feet deep and about twice as wide. the first regiment was just behind us. It had been smoky and a heavy fog all day but has cleared up about this time and we had no sooner got in this gully than a rebel battery opened fire upon us I suppose the brass battery that we passed but their shot fell short and some of them struck in the gully just where we were one man in the first was struck about the head and one of the twenty Third had both his jaws broken but no one in this regiment was hurt. They kept firing and the shell falling around us untill [sic] dark. The whole regiment and all that was in the gully laid down flat on the ground about dark we was ordered to fall in and march about three or four hundred yards down the gully and there we laid down for [illegible]. At we was ordered to build small fires while we laid in line in the orchard some of us went out a little ways to the right and saw the bodies of three rebels that had been killed the day before. they laid stretched out on the ground. their clothes were of coarse grey cloth but they was almost new. One was shot in the neck with a shell the other two was shot in the body with rifle balls, the sight of these men made me sicker than anything that i had seen since I had been in the service.
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Gordon, Stephen , “December 12, 1862 (continued),” Gordon Diaries, accessed October 3, 2024, http://gordondiaries.umwhistory.org/items/show/3962.