1862 April 14 near Yorktown, Va.

[from the diary of Captain Jonathan B. Hager of the 14th U. S. Regulars, as copied at a later date from the original]

Monday. to day some heavy firing was heard on
our left, we supposed in the Corps Commanded by
Genl Keyes: this afterward proved to be the affair
of the dams on Warwick River, in which some
Vermont troops under Gen. W. F. Smith distinguished
themselves, and the time when the general was
thrown from his horse giving rise to the slanderous
charge of being intoxicated, a charge which the
author was forced by the General to retract.

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