From Jerome to [Probably Allie], December 12, 1862
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Title
From Jerome to [Probably Allie], December 12, 1862
Subject
Peirce, Jerome
[Probably Allie]
Fredericksburg, VA.
Description
From Jerome to [Probably Allie]
Creator
Jerome Peirce
Source
Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Service
Publisher
HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
Date
1862-12-12
Contributor
NPS, Civil War Study Group, Donald Pfanz (Transcriber)
Rights
For educational purposes with no commercial use. Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, FRSP 16095-16102 (FRSP-00904).
Format
6.3 X 5.6 - 1st Scan
5.85 X 8.45 - 2nd Scan
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5.85 X 8.45 - 2nd Scan
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Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
Letter #46
Coverage
Fredericksburg, VA.
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Text
Friday morn 12 Dec. 1862. Fredericksburg Va.
About nine o’clk. marched from camp into the City by the Pontoon bridge. Halted, on the levee, or wharf & Street, with many more troops, 29th Mass[,] 79th N.Y. 46th do. [ditto] 27th New Jersey among them.
Remained about the streets all day. Saw some of the effects of fire and shelling. Town riddled, every house, more or less destroyed. Furniture, books, and g[?]s of every description, laying about in confusion. A terrible scene of desolation and ruin, past all description. Camped at night in an old back room to a house with Color Guard. Cannonading during the day and about 4 P.M. the Rebs replied in a few founds of shell, which made a “skeddadle” of sorts[?] in the streets, and wounded and killed one or two. A shell struck in field near me as I was run[n]ing to my post, (I was looking over a house when the alarm came) but did not explode.
Thus we were “under fire” for the first time, and had the credit of “taking it very Cool,” from Col Le[a]sure).
About nine o’clk. marched from camp into the City by the Pontoon bridge. Halted, on the levee, or wharf & Street, with many more troops, 29th Mass[,] 79th N.Y. 46th do. [ditto] 27th New Jersey among them.
Remained about the streets all day. Saw some of the effects of fire and shelling. Town riddled, every house, more or less destroyed. Furniture, books, and g[?]s of every description, laying about in confusion. A terrible scene of desolation and ruin, past all description. Camped at night in an old back room to a house with Color Guard. Cannonading during the day and about 4 P.M. the Rebs replied in a few founds of shell, which made a “skeddadle” of sorts[?] in the streets, and wounded and killed one or two. A shell struck in field near me as I was run[n]ing to my post, (I was looking over a house when the alarm came) but did not explode.
Thus we were “under fire” for the first time, and had the credit of “taking it very Cool,” from Col Le[a]sure).
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Reference
Jerome Peirce 1862, From Jerome to [Probably Allie], December 12, 1862, HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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