January 24, 1863
Title
January 24, 1863
Creator
Gordon, Stephen
Date
1863-01-24
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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24th Saturday
about 8 o’clock we was ordered to pack up and be ready to move got started about 10 AM. we marched about a mileacross the fields to a road and rested. heximers battery passed us here going in the direction of white oak church here we filed around and went down towards the river. the mud was about half knee deep. we saw men hauling ponton [sic] wagons through the mud. went down in the woods near where we went yesterday there we rested and got dinner. after dinner we countermarched, going over the road that we went in the morning. halted in an open field. CO A was detailed for to pull the pontoons out of the mud. after they had been
about 8 o’clock we was ordered to pack up and be ready to move got started about 10 AM. we marched about a mileacross the fields to a road and rested. heximers battery passed us here going in the direction of white oak church here we filed around and went down towards the river. the mud was about half knee deep. we saw men hauling ponton [sic] wagons through the mud. went down in the woods near where we went yesterday there we rested and got dinner. after dinner we countermarched, going over the road that we went in the morning. halted in an open field. CO A was detailed for to pull the pontoons out of the mud. after they had been
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Gordon, Stephen , “January 24, 1863,” Gordon Diaries, accessed April 17, 2026, https://gordondiaries.umwhistory.org/items/show/4003.