Saturday, August 11, 2012

1862 August 12 near Cedar Mountain

[from the diary of Private Ephraim A. Wood, Co. C., 13th Massachusetts]


  Tuesday   Aug 12th/62
   The Enemy Skedaddled last night,
our Cavalry and Artilery have gone
in pursuit.  Our team came up today        

   Seth Johnson came up from
Culpepper last Sunday So as
to be with us if we had
a fight.  He was down on the
Battle field with me yesterday.

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 12021

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