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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 18: Fredericksburg. (search)
l Federal gunboats had appeared at the village of Port Royal, upon the Rappahannock, twenty miles below. As t of the army. General D. H. Hill proceeded to Port Royal on the 3rd of December, constructed a slight entrthe bank. A few days after, they returned toward Port Royal with five additional ships; but were again driveel Brown from the reserves. A few miles above Port Royal an insignificant stream, at a place known as the e Fredericksburg, by the corps of Longstreet. At Port Royal was the division of D. H. Hill; between him and Le of the great collision, messengers were sent to Port Royal for the other divisions. The summons reached Gen from the neighborhood of Guinea's Station toward Port Royal. Very soon the men were comfortably housed in hu of Mr. Corbin, midway between Fredericksburg and Port Royal, and near the centre of his troops. Declining th covered the whole country from Fredericksburg to Port Royal, he set himself busily to bring up this arrear of
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 19: Chancellorsville. (search)
o provoke a serious collision on the ground which had been so disastrous to Burnside. That ground had now been strengthened by a continous line of field-works, along the edge of the plateau near the Spottsylvania hills, and by a second partial line within the verge of the forest. He suspected that this crossing was the feint, while the real movement was made upon one or the other flank; and he therefore awaited the reports of the vigilant Stuart, whose cavalry pickets were stretched from Port Royal to the higher course of the Rappahannock. It has already been explained, that the character of the ground, rendered an assault upon the enemy near the northern edge of the plain inexpedient, because of their commanding artillery upon the Stafford heights. The Confederate Generals were not left long in doubt. Stuart soon reported appearances which indicated a passage of the Rappahannock by Hooker west of Fredericksburg, He had now restored the Federal army to the same vast numbers whi