The latest report from Fredericksburg surrounding the fate of Augustus Baldwin Fairchild appeared in the New Haven Daily Palladium:
A letter just received from the Surgeon’s Orderly of the 27th, contains as much concerning the martyrdom of young Fairchild, as we shall be likely to know. The writer says: ‘I cannot learn any thing of his fate, further than that he was seen to fall in the fight. Our boys the day after the battle went to search for him, but were fired on by the rebel sharpshooters and were forced to return. Some days after that a number went over under a flag of truce, but nothing could be found of him. He was probably buried by the rebels. He was a quiet, fine young man, and his early death will be remembered with the tenderest emotions by all who knew him. All the officers praised him for his fidelity and gentlemanly worth.’1
References:
1"A[u]gustus B. Fairchild" New Haven Daily Palladium (New Haven, Connecticut), 10 January 1863, issue 8, col C.
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