Thursday, December 11, 1862
Private Augustus Fairchild of Company A of the Twenty-Seventh Connecticut remained on the Falmouth side of the Rappahannock River, watching the Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment cross under heavy fire. His relative by marriage, Private Oliver Stanton Bates of Company A of the Twentieth Massachusetts, was among those who crossed the river under intense fire and was later involved in the brutal fighting as the Twentieth Massachusetts fought their way into Fredericksburg. Oliver Stanton Bates was the brother-in-law of Augustus Fairchild's older brother Joseph.1
References:
1Winthrop Dudley Sheldon The "Twenty-Seventh," : A Regimental History (New Haven, Connecticut: Morris and Benham, 1866), 22-24.
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