Raining hard all
day, and fighting all last night. About 2 o'clock this afternoon about 2,000
prisoners came in, with them Major-General Johnson and Brigadier-General
Stewart. We have moved four miles nearer to Fredericksburg. I suppose they
think we are too close to our own lines, and they are afraid we will be
recaptured, as it was a few days ago. We heard our boys', or, as the Yankees
call it, the Rebel yell. We prisoners also gave the Rebel yell. A few minutes
after that they brought cannon to bear on us, and we were told to stop, or they
would open on us. We stopped.
SOURCE: Louis
Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 62
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