January 21, 1863
Title
January 21, 1863
Creator
Gordon, Stephen
Date
1863-01-21
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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English
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Jan 21st Wensday [sic]
about eight AM we was ordered to pack up and be ready to fall in line at a minutes notice we fell in and marched about half a mile when we stacked arms in a pine woods and rested untill [sic] about noon. Then we marched on across a brook and over a big hill where the mud was ankle deep. halted in an oak woods for the night it rained more or less all day and night. while we was resting in the pine woods Berden’s sharp shooters went ahead of us. It is said that there is twenty four absentees form this regt. Eleven are form Co. I as near as I can find out – we are about four miles above Fredericksburg and about one mile from the river
about eight AM we was ordered to pack up and be ready to fall in line at a minutes notice we fell in and marched about half a mile when we stacked arms in a pine woods and rested untill [sic] about noon. Then we marched on across a brook and over a big hill where the mud was ankle deep. halted in an oak woods for the night it rained more or less all day and night. while we was resting in the pine woods Berden’s sharp shooters went ahead of us. It is said that there is twenty four absentees form this regt. Eleven are form Co. I as near as I can find out – we are about four miles above Fredericksburg and about one mile from the river
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Gordon, Stephen , “January 21, 1863,” Gordon Diaries, accessed April 17, 2026, https://gordondiaries.umwhistory.org/items/show/4000.