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The railroad in rear was taken possession of and destroyed as far as possible. Wright's corps crossed at Jericho early the same day, and took position to the right of Warren's corps, extending south of the Virginia Central Railroad. It was found, however, that Burnside's corps could not cross at Ox Ford.
From Marysville General Sherman's troops returned to Chattanooga, while Granger's corps continued on toward Knoxville, to take part in the pursuit of Longstreet. Burnside's army was deficient in subsistence, though not to the extent that we had supposed before leaving Chattanooga.
Burnside's crossing the river at Fredericksburg was only a feint, as the mass of his army crossed near Chancellorsville, and thither our army went, leaving Early's division, two other brigades and several batteries, including ours, to oppose Sedgwick's corps.
Vallandigham's offense was a public speech of which no accurate report survives. However, the fragments recorded by "plain clothes" men in Burnside's employ, when set in the perspective of Vallandigham's thinking as displayed in Congress, make its tenor plain enough. It was an out-and-out Copperhead harangue. If he was to be treated as hundreds of others had been, the case against him was plain.
Just in our rear and on the crest of the hill, our batteries were posted so as to fire over our heads. On our right was a dense forest where the Fifth corps were posted, and on our left Burnside's troops occupied a more open country.
The guards for the railways and necessary posts were reduced to the lowest limits of safety, and every available regiment was hurried to the front. By the end of September Burnside's forces were pretty well concentrated between Knoxville and Loudon, the crossing of the Holston River.
The railroad in rear was taken possession of and destroyed as far as possible. Wright's corps crossed at Jericho early the same day, and took position to the right of Warren's corps, extending south of the Virginia Central Railroad. It was found, however, that Burnside's corps could not cross at Ox Ford.
With thirty-seven thousand grey soldiers he had repelled in a welter of blood McClellan's eighty-six thousand at Antietam and retired at his leisure. With seventy thousand men he had crushed Burnside's host of one hundred and thirteen thousand at Fredericksburg.
French and Richardson's battle may be considered as ended at one or two o'clock. There was no fighting later but that on the extreme left, where Burnside's Ninth Corps was engaged, and we must turn our attention to that part of the field.
Look at the guns up in the air like that! It's closed again." "Well, if that wasn't fantastic! Ten iron guns in a row, posted in space!" "Hm! brass bands. My Lord! there must be one to a platoon!" "Hear them marching! Saw lightning once run along the ground now it's thunder. How many men has General Ambrose Everett Burnside got, anyhow?" "Burnside's been to dances before in Fredericksburg!
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