Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, December 11, 1862

Left camp at half-past six, and marched to Falmouth, and staid all night. The bombardment of Fredericksburg began at daybreak, and lasted till dark, and the city was set on fire by shells from the Union artillery. Twenty-five rebel prisoners.

SOURCE: John Lord Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 270