Posted on 12/01/2022 5:22:14 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Sunday, Nov. 30 -- 7 1/2 P.M.
Some camps of the enemy, visible yesterday, disappeared last night. They probably have retired to the valley behind the range of hills in the rear of Fredericksburgh.
New rebel earthworks almost daily make their appearance, and the range In the rear of the town is crowned almost continuously with redoubts and rifle pits.
Some of our batteries, whose guns bear directly upon the town, have recently been protected by earthworks.
Five gunboats are reported to have advanced up the Rappahannock opposite King George Court house. The right wing of the enemy extends nearly to that point, but at some distance from the river.
A few shots were thrown over the river, yesterday, by one of our left wing batteries, probably to try the range of the guns.
Gen. BURNSIDE has returned to camp from his temporary visit to Washington.
All is quiet, to-night, along our lines.
WASHINGTON, Sunday, Nov. 30.
We learn, by a special dispatch from the TIMES' correspondent at Falmouth, that three hundred infantry, belonging to the Twelfth and Seventeenth New-York Regiments, were reported surprised and captured, last evening, a few miles above that point on the Rappahannock.
About dusk, last evening, the enemy commenced throwing up a new line of earthworks below Fredericksburgh, from five to eight hundred workmen being visible from our signal station.
It is considered certain that Gen. LEE is in command.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, Nov. 29.
The object of the President's visit to Gen. BURNSIDE continues to be the theme of speculation. I think that, without departing from the line of strict propriety, I can say that it had reference to the delay which has attended the advance across the Rappahannock. When Gen. BURNSIDE assumed command of the Army of the Potomac,
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From the Army of the Potomac: New Earthworks Thrown up by the Rebels Near Fredericksburgh – 2-4
The Opposing Armies on the Rappahannock – 3
Important from New-Orleans: Preparations for a Land and Naval Expedition up the Mississippi – 4-5
News from Washington: The Meeting of Congress Tod-Day – 5-6
Editorial: The Missouri Execution – 6
Grant’s Army Moving – War in the Southwest – 6-7
Our Gunboats on the Rappahannock – 7
The Blockading Service: Operations on the South Carolina Coast – 7
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