At dawn of day, contrary to
our expectations, the enemy did not open on us again. Having had no food since
the day before, some of us went to the town, and as fortune, would have it,
found bread, molasses, and that renowned coffee kettle, the fourth detachment
will well remember. We enjoyed a good soldiers' breakfast. Lieut. Tompkins,
behaving towards the men like a gentleman, they would have done most anything
for him. In several cases he relieved our wants, out of his own purse. Late in
the afternoon we left Great Falls, marching towards Seneca Mills, as the enemy
made various demonstrations up and down the Potomac. Rain falling incessantly,
and passing through dense woods marching became a matter of impossibility, and
it was decided to halt by the roadside until daylight. An unoccupied house
being close by, we all took possession of it, and found ourselves quite
comfortable.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 19-20
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