We had battalion drill this afternoon. News came that
Yorktown has been taken. New troops are still arriving and our lines are being
extended to the right and left. A second line is supporting the artillery in
the front line and the second line’s flanks are supported by the cavalry.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 48
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