camp At Buckland.
Oct. 19, 1863.
. . . We have had another fight to-day. We marched from
between Gainesville and Bristow Station before day and passed that station and
Catlett's and then up the Warrenton road which we left about half way between
the two places, taking the road leading to Buckland four miles from Gainesville
on the Warrenton and Alexandria Turnpike. We got in position about twelve
hundred yards from Battery “M,” 2nd U. S. Artillery, six guns. We had two. We
lost four wounded, Lt. Shanks and Lt. Johnston among the number, neither
dangerously however. I shall get Lt. Shanks, who starts for Warrenton directly,
to take this. I think that the Army is on the retreat and when we get back I
will write a full account of our doings. . . .
On the 19th Hampton's Division was on the turnpike West of
Gainesville and ours about midway between Gainesville and Bristow Station.
Before daylight we marched to Bristow, then down to Catlett's and from there
across the country by Auburn which lies about half way between Catlett's and
Warrenton. At Auburn we left the Warrenton road and took that leading to
Buckland which is four miles from Gainesville to the West. Meanwhile Stuart
with Hampton's Division had been retiring before the Yankees along the turnpike
before Warrenton. Then when the Yankees thought everything was getting along
finely, the whole of Fitz Lee's Division came in on their flank and before
night we had them back on their Infantry supports and some even of the latter on
their way to Richmond. . . .
SOURCE: Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in
’61, p. 153-4
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