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| Battle of Fredricksburg raged, Chatham became a significant focal point for a number of reasons. The commander of the Right Grand Division, Major General Edwin V. Sumner, made Chatham his field Headquarters. Major General Ambrose E. Burnside conferred with his top aides at the house. A number of artillery batteries situated near the house offered covering fire for the engineers who built pontoon bridges as well as for troops who crossed the temporary bridges to attack Confederates atop Marye's Heights. Following the battle, Chatham served as a temporary field hospital where Barton and Whitman ministered to the wounded. During the Union army's winter encampment volunteers established a rest station at the house to serve pickets off duty. |
(Fredericksburg, Virginia - December 1862)
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