. History of the Twelfth Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, in the Civil War, 1862-1863 . a wagon road running along parallelwith the river and connecting with the bridge at Falmouth, wasdoubtless occupied by the rebel pickets when screened from ob-servation by darkness. While our soldiers as a rule made no at-tempt to conceal their movements by daylight, the rebels keptthemselves covered both day and night. Although surprising as it appears to me, through all my ex-perience in and about Falmouth and Fredericksburg, before,during, and after the battle, I was rarely able to set my eyes ona man,
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. History of the Twelfth Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, in the Civil War, 1862-1863 . a wagon road running along parallelwith the river and connecting with the bridge at Falmouth, wasdoubtless occupied by the rebel pickets when screened from ob-servation by darkness. While our soldiers as a rule made no at-tempt to conceal their movements by daylight, the rebels keptthemselves covered both day and night. Although surprising as it appears to me, through all my ex-perience in and about Falmouth and Fredericksburg, before, during, and after the battle, I was rarely able to set my eyes ona man, with or without the equipment of the soldier, whom I hadreason to believe was in the service or sympathy of the Confed-erates. But that they were about us, and not far distant, wehad most convincing proof, nevertheless. And although withinfive hundred feet of the sunken road, at the foot of Maryes Hill, whence the terrific fire could only have resulted from the pres-ence of rebels, massed in large numbers, although comradesclaimed to see an occasional movement, I failed to notice it.. Capt. Edward S. Cheney. RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS 69 That they were in condition to withstand our assault withoutexposing themselves to view, reflects much credit on rehel engi-neering. And to those of us who were in position to observe thevolume of their fire, when, and how delivered, we could realizethat on their part, no ammunition was to be needlessly expended. January 17th we received marching orders; packed our knap-sacks accordingly, filled our haversacks with rations, and pre-pared to move at once. All things seemed to indicate an early movement. Sunday, the 18th, passed by. Monday, the 19th, regiment after regiment marched past ourcamp. Tuesday, the 20th, it was plainly evident that the GrandArmy of the Potomac was in motion. This day at our dressparade an address from General Burnside was read to us, call-ing us once more to face the enemy. Our colonel had orders tomove the regiment that ni