To-day (Saturday, P. St., May 31) they have loaded all their
wounded into wagons for transportation in their retreat.
Colonel Kenly and I have been paroled this afternoon.
Colonel Kenly's wound in the head improves daily. Most of the prisoners,
officers and men, marched off this Saturday morning.
I have furnished bread and some vegetables to our friends at
the court-house every morning. Now that they have gone, I fear that they will
suffer, perhaps for want of food.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cunningham, Twenty-first Virginia
Volunteers, who has just taken my parole, tells me that his regiment was on the
hill opposite our position.
“Your battery was splendidly served,” said he; “and your
line of sharpshooters behind the stone wall on your right picked off every
officer of our regiment who showed himself. Seven or eight of our officers were
wounded by them. We fired spherical case over the wall at them, and, at
last, round shot at the wall from the Rockbridge artillery.”
SOURCE: Elizabeth Amelia Dwight, Editor, Life and
Letters of Wilder Dwight: Lieut.-Col. Second Mass. Inf. Vols., p. 263
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