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Chapter 8:
The Mine Run Campaign.
November 11 to December 3, 1863.
A mud march
delays
across the Rapidan
Robertson's Tavern
in line at Mine Run
a Cold Snap
rumors
the expected as
Sault
the return to Brandy Station
a brief synopsis of the Campaign.
Having once become fairly located in camp, we began to make more extensive preparations for our bodily comfort, in the line of stockades—a branch of architecture in which, thus far, we had had almost no experience—and comparatively spacious fireplaces communicating with lofty chimneys built of wood and lined with the red, clayey soil of Virginia.
These, in common with the most aristocratic F. F. V.'s, we built outside our dwellings.
But as rumors of further active operations were rife, we were kept on the anxious seat, and many of our number made themselves contented in less pretentious abodes until the future should seem more settled.
Nor were we in much more uncertainty than the General commanding, who was an