Soon after daybreak Regt. moved up. Packs ordered up and breakfast got
near the church. Regt. dismounted and put into the breastworks. Rebel cavalry
charged and drove our boys from the first line of works, by flanking them. Soon
column came up and rebs ran back. Had one killed and two or three wounded in
their scrape. Tom came up in the evening, going back to the company, would like
to go myself. About sundown the firing on Burnside's right was the most terrific
I ever heard and continued for nearly half an hour. It must have been an
assault. Am anxious to hear the result. Gen. Torbert's division of cavalry
arrived. Regt. nearly all on duty.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman Harris
Tenney, p. 118
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