HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF
THE POTOMAC
April 29.
The rebels apparently realized that McClellan is making
great preparations to open the second siege of Yorktown. Your earthworks begin to present a very
formidable appearance, and all yesterday and last night the enemy kept up a
brisk fire, trying to drive us out.
Nobody was injured and the work progressed. This morning the enemy opened a vigorous
fire, which was kept up for three hours, from the batteries near the river, but
receiving no response, ceased.
Yesterday Gen. Hancock, with a portion of his brigade, went
to drive the rebels from the woods near our earthworks. Our troops poured in their fire in all
directions causing them to retreat, leaving their dead and wounded. During this skirmish our troops silenced the
new rebel battery, dismounting the guns erected Sunday night, and which had interfered
with our working parties.
The weather is favorable.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, May 1, 1862, p. 1
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