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GEN. BURNSIDE'S ARMY.HEADQuJfKRB, Deo. X$.—Yesterday the rebels pent* under a flag of truce, a request that we would bury aur dead. A burying party accordingly went over and continued their labors to-day. During tbe truce Col. Wallen, chief of Longstreet's artillery, informed some of our officers that the reoel iufautry force engaged on Gen. Sumner’s front was only two brigades, but that they had a largeafreserve near by. He said our men exhibited tho greatest bravery, but he considered the Tebel position impregnable, and that a force of 600,000 men would find it impossible to carry the heightS in face o( their batteries.The rebel loss was small, compared with ours, from the fact that they were protected by a stone wall and r’fle pits; Our losses as heretofore reported, have been considerably decreased by the urrivai of stragglers in ojmp.The enemy took bearly 800 prisoners from us, a eonsideraDle proportion of which were absent from their camps when we evacuated the south side of the river. The prisoners taken on both sides have been paroled.It is stated that General Lee and Long street were- down to-day and held conversation rtith some of out* Officers.—Theftftgof^ruce^was^vvithdTirwn^tourghT after all our dead were buried.
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Waynesboro Village Record
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Dec 26, 1862
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