Started at 4 a. m. and marched twenty miles today. We passed
through Fredericksburg at 1 p. m., crossing the Rappahannock river at that
place. On coming into Fredericksburg we marched along that stone wall by the
bend of the river and looked down upon the lowland below where so many of our boys
were marched to their death — at that terrible battle. It made me shudder to
look down upon that horrible place. Fredericksburg seemed filled with Johnnies
just returned from the war. At 5 o'clock we crossed the Poe river and went into
bivouac.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 275
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