1863 January 10 camp across the Rappahannock from Fredericksburg.

[from the diary of the Rev. Francis E. Butler, chaplain of the 25th New Jersey]

Sat 10.  Q.M. & John went off by first train.  I also recd. Metalic
coffin & exhumed & forwarded Posts body.   vist. hosp –
Began a settled rain about dinner noon, & still rains 9 P.M.

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

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