December 12, 1862 (continued)

December 12, 1862 (continued)

Gordon, Stephen

1862-12-12

Stewart, James

Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, FRSP 3983-3987, FRSP 15960-15961.

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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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