Diary of 1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, Sunday, August 18, 1861

Back to Sandy Hook. I managed this morning to get a few hours' sleep to make up for the last two nights; it refreshed me very much. In the afternoon, we marched two miles further on, leaving two companies to guard the ford and ferry. On halting, we found six of our wagons with our tents, which were immediately pitched. At night, the companies at the river were relieved; we then heard that there had been a little skirmish after we had left. Some three hundred cavalry had scoured into town and begun firing at our men; this was quickly returned, and resulted in the enemy losing three or four wounded, which disconcerted them and they left.

SOURCE: Charles Fessenden Morse, Letters Written During the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 18