Saturday, March 14, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: August 23, 1862

Willy Preston has been in a battle (Cedar Run), and we hear behaved with remarkable gallantry — rallied a disorganized regiment, or rather parts of many companies, and with a lieutenant led them to the charge.

SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 146

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