The American Civil War - This Mighty Scourge of War

Portrait of a soldier 87

Soldiers of William Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade fire at
Union pontoon bridge-builders on 11 December 1862.
Moore recorded that the fighting began about 9 am.
The Union bombardment of Fredericksburg commenced

shortly thereafter and continued until about 4.30 pm,

'when we were forced to retire down the river bank but

held [the] Yanks out of the city until 8.00 p.m. when we

retired & left the city in the hands of the Abolitionists.^1