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Miller, Michael Murray (1861-1864) to Lile Miller

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02155.072 Author/Creator: Miller, Michael Murray (1861-1864) Place Written: Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 17 December 1862 Pagination: 4 p. ; 20.5 x 12.7 cm. Order a Copy

Miller writes to his wife from camp at Brooks Station. Comments on the Battle of Fredericksburg: "Our company mad [sic] a lucky escape in not getting into this last Battle, All the Rest of our Division were in it and as usual were the first or nearly so in the fight we were told last evening the loss in the Division that is the Reserve Corps in killed wounded & missing is something over 21 hundred we have not heard the loss of our Army But is must have Been severe and the worse is we gained nothing as they have fell back again to this side of the River and the Rebels again ocupy [sic] Fredericksburg... we were whipped yet they say our men charged to the verry mouth of their cannon and were almost mowed down... one thing i thank god this was not McClellan, i suppose the other tribe will find that Burnside is not in Richmond yet..." Reports that General [Franz] Sigel's division passed by yesterday.

Miller, Michael M
McClellan, George B., 1826-1885
Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881
Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902

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