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George C. Burmeister diary, 1863
1863-12-04
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ity of the bridge, that the smoke which we saw was caused by burning leaves in the forrest, which were fired by some of the bivouac fires of our own men. He begged us to cease throwing shell over toward his house, for one had entered it and had cleared it of nearly everything, bursting under the table which was prepared with their dinner to which they were just ready to sit down when the shell entered. It broke nearly all their dishes and injured, his mother-in-law slightly. He seized the table cloth and displayed it as a flag of truce and ran as hard as he could to report to us. We waited quite a while for the rebels, but we soon learned that they had only made a feint at this place, and passed towards Saulsburg. We returned towards evening to our camp. Friday 4 News arrived here this morning that the rebels were destroying the road at Saulsburg and had burned the town, that fighting was going on at this place. We were ordered to get ready instantly to move towards the scene of the conflict, in a very few minutes we were on board the cars enroute for Saulsburg, took the left wing of our regiment
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ity of the bridge, that the smoke which we saw was caused by burning leaves in the forrest, which were fired by some of the bivouac fires of our own men. He begged us to cease throwing shell over toward his house, for one had entered it and had cleared it of nearly everything, bursting under the table which was prepared with their dinner to which they were just ready to sit down when the shell entered. It broke nearly all their dishes and injured, his mother-in-law slightly. He seized the table cloth and displayed it as a flag of truce and ran as hard as he could to report to us. We waited quite a while for the rebels, but we soon learned that they had only made a feint at this place, and passed towards Saulsburg. We returned towards evening to our camp. Friday 4 News arrived here this morning that the rebels were destroying the road at Saulsburg and had burned the town, that fighting was going on at this place. We were ordered to get ready instantly to move towards the scene of the conflict, in a very few minutes we were on board the cars enroute for Saulsburg, took the left wing of our regiment
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