FREDERICKSBURG Before night the Union army had three bridges across the Rappahannock, and before morning it had six.

The regiment that had crossed held the right bank of the river, that is, the side of the South, and the boats moved freely back and forth in the stream.
Yet the main army itself did not yet begin the crossing.

Harry slept a few hours before and after midnight, lying in the lee of a little ridge and wrapped in a pair of heavy blankets, but as he wakened from time to time he heard little from the river.

There were no sounds to indicate that great streams of armed men with their cannon were pouring over the bridges.

After the tremendous cannonade of the afternoon the night seemed very quiet and peaceful.
Fires were burning here and there, but they were not many.