Thursday, June 7, 2012

1862 June 8

[from the diary of Frank Fitzhugh of Cutshaw's Battery]


June                          Sunday 8   1862                                
   Battle at Port Repub-
-lic.  Va. Battery engaged.
fired through the streets
of Port Republic.
enemy repulsed.  driven back 2 miles

[transcription by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]


MSS 4448                

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