On November 26,
1862, the Union army arrived in Falmouth, Virginia and across the
Rappahannock River was Fredericksburg where the Confederate forces
had fortified the hills behind the city. They would stay in
Falmouth until December 11 when they bombarded Fredericksburg on
December 13 and moved into the destroyed city, but the Confederates
were in the hills. The next day the 44th New York, Orsells
regiment joined the Third Brigade as they attempted to capture the
Confederates position. They moved through the hills and ravine
trying to avoid sniper and cannon fire, but they had to take cover
behind a small rise in the ground and spend the night there in the
mud. The next morning, December 14, after thirty hours of being in
battle the Third
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For Orsell this
loss hurt his moral and chipped away at his ideals. In the letter
from December 22, 1862, a week after Fredericksburg, the loss still
haunts Orsell This separation is long and what is more tedious we
cannot look forward to the time when our fondest hopes will be
realized providing our lives are spared. It is not with high
spirits, bring out hopes and cheerful up that I can seat myself to
write you this evening. Orsell admitted that the loss has hurt him
so badly that he could not write to Olivia which was something he
always looked forward. Orsell continued by describing the defeat as
inglorious and that it had cast a gloom of disappointment and
sorrow over the whole army as well as destroying the hope of the
soldiers. To close the letter, Orsell wrote about how he felt about
first joining the army and how he felt now after the defeat, Even
at that time I did not think we were to suffer such a defeat and it
was indeed startling. Orsell started to truly question why he was
there and if it was worth it because one wrong move could
kill
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