Camp near Williamsport,
Maryland,
July 7th, 1863
Dear Papa,
Since the 13th of June, inclusive, there has not been a day
on which we have not marched. Our battery and two guns of McGregor's were with
the cavalry, Fitz and W. H. F. Lee's brigades and Hampton's on the expedition
round the enemy. We started on the march the 24th of June and reached our lines
at Gettysburg the 2nd of July just before night. Genl. Hampton captured a train
of 200 wagons and burnt some of them within seven miles of Georgetown, the
Yankee army lying at Frederick. We brought into our lines at Gettysburg
one hundred and sixty odd. We reached this place yesterday afternoon while a
fight was going on for the possession of the ford, the enemy endeavoring to
drive us from it. The battery was not engaged however. Orders have just come to
move.
SOURCE: Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in
’61, p. 139-40
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