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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Resuming their March to Fredericksburg

Tuesday, December 9, 1862

After a delay of two cold, frosty days huddled around campfires at Acquia Landing, the Thirteenth New Hampshire resumed their march to Fredericksburg at 2:00 P.M., advancing six miles and camping at Brooks Station for the evening.1

References:
1S. Millett Thompson, Thirteenth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 : A Diary Covering Three Years and a Day (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888), 32-34.