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- GLC#
- GLC02155.072-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 17, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864
- Title
- to Lile Miller
- Place Written
- Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 12.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
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.
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