Saturday, March 29, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, May 19, 1862

HEADQUARTERS 54TH REGT. O. V. INF.,
CAMP NO. 7 BEFORE CORINTH, May 19, 1862.

Yesterday we were in a sharp engagement. Had thirteen men killed and thirty-five wounded. We were victorious, and drew the enemy from position. My troops are now in battle array, waiting orders. We hear General Pope is hotly engaged on the left wing.

SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 204

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