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| | The Irish Brigade |
 | | On the Thursday morning previous, December 11, at 7 o’clock precisely, the brigade left the camp from which this report is dated, and proceeded toward the pontoon bridge over the Rappahannock, which it was arranged the division should cross. |
 | | Advancing up the street, at the front of which the right of the brigade in line had rested, and worried by shell and shot and rifle balls every step we took, we crossed, the mill-race immediately outside of the city, which water course may be described as the first defense of the enemy. |
 | | In this street the hospitals of the brigade had been established, and to it, consequently, all the officers and men of the brigade instinctively returned. |
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