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<p>My hurried note to you some <br />four or five days ago was so short that <br />I cannot call it a letter, & will now <br />try to write one more worthy of the name. <br />We are now on the Pamunkey R., a tributary <br />of the York, and are about 25 to 30 miles <br />from Richmond. There is a house or two at <br />the landing, & the river is crowded with <br />steamers, sailing vessels, & transports, of all <br />sized and descriptions, from a canal-boat <br />to a six-gun propeller.</p> | <p>My hurried note to you some <br />four or five days ago was so short that <br />I cannot call it a letter, & will now <br />try to write one more worthy of the name. <br />We are now on the Pamunkey R., a tributary <br />of the York, and are about 25 to 30 miles <br />from Richmond. There is a house or two at <br />the landing, & the river is crowded with <br />steamers, sailing vessels, & transports, of all <br />sized and descriptions, from a canal-boat <br />to a six-gun propeller.</p> | ||
| − | <p>You already know that we have been <br />in a battle, & a pretty severe one at that. <br />We had marched from Yorktown on the 4th, <br />and at 2 a.m. on the 5th a Virginia <br />drizzle set in, through which we marched <br />until about 3 P.M., when we came to a <br />point 3 miles below Williamsburg. We <br />dropped our knapsacks there, & in obedience <br />to orders from Gen Heintzelman, ran the</p> | + | <p>You already know that we have been <br />in a battle, & a pretty severe one at that. <br />We had marched from Yorktown on the 4th, <br />and at 2 a.m. on the 5th a Virginia <br />drizzle set in, through which we marched <br />until about 3 P.M., when we came to a <br />point 3 miles below Williamsburg. We <br />dropped our knapsacks there, & in obedience <br />to orders from Gen Heintzelman, ran the</p></html> |
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<html>Cumberland Landing
on Pamunkey River
12 miles from West Point,
May 16[struck-through] 17, 1862
Dear Mary,
My hurried note to you some
four or five days ago was so short that
I cannot call it a letter, & will now
try to write one more worthy of the name.
We are now on the Pamunkey R., a tributary
of the York, and are about 25 to 30 miles
from Richmond. There is a house or two at
the landing, & the river is crowded with
steamers, sailing vessels, & transports, of all
sized and descriptions, from a canal-boat
to a six-gun propeller.
You already know that we have been
in a battle, & a pretty severe one at that.
We had marched from Yorktown on the 4th,
and at 2 a.m. on the 5th a Virginia
drizzle set in, through which we marched
until about 3 P.M., when we came to a
point 3 miles below Williamsburg. We
dropped our knapsacks there, & in obedience
to orders from Gen Heintzelman, ran the
