Thursday, November 1, 2012

1862 November 2 between Charlestown & Beryville?

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




November                  Sunday 2                1862                  
     Skirmishing all day
On Snickers Gap.  We recd
orders 4 P.M.to be ready to move
at a moments warning.   kept
horses harnessed all night

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 4448

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