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68 At Fredricksburg

After about ten days stay in this camp we wer relieved and ordered to report to the [?] martial at Bell plains landing. So we did and recd orders from him to report to the [?] martial at Fredricksburg and so we did and was quartered in an old hotel that old historical city where we had fought in 1863. Here we lay about a week doing fatigue duty for the hospital and whatever the provost martial found to be done. Many of our sick and wounded were here and we assisted in adding to thair comfort, or at least allaying thair suffering. I see some of my old regs and some of the 1st Me heavy artillery I heard that my brother Frederick was wounded, yet I could not find him.

I was detaled with twelv men to go over the river to Falmoth to unload wounded from the ambulance to the cars enroute to Washington. We started at twelv o'clock at night and finished the job about nine in the morning