May 29th, 1865
Title
May 29th, 1865
Creator
Gordon, Stephen
Date
1865-05-29
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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May 29 Monday
Clear and warm started at five a.m . the roads were very bad at first got better the farther we went. Camped at three o'clock on the flats to the right and rear of Fredericksburg Headquarter on the heights. The men are rambling over the battlegrounds and taking a last look at the place where so many lost their lives. Issued two days rations orders to move at five in the morning. There was about two thousand of our corps straggled ahead and got in the town. Some of them murdered a merchant of the town. They was all arrested and sent to Washington. Crossed the Ny, Po, Ta + Mat rivers today.
Clear and warm started at five a.m . the roads were very bad at first got better the farther we went. Camped at three o'clock on the flats to the right and rear of Fredericksburg Headquarter on the heights. The men are rambling over the battlegrounds and taking a last look at the place where so many lost their lives. Issued two days rations orders to move at five in the morning. There was about two thousand of our corps straggled ahead and got in the town. Some of them murdered a merchant of the town. They was all arrested and sent to Washington. Crossed the Ny, Po, Ta + Mat rivers today.
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Gordon, Stephen , “May 29th, 1865,” Gordon Diaries, accessed April 17, 2026, https://gordondiaries.umwhistory.org/items/show/4254.