Thursday, March 14, 2024

Diary of Private William S. White, June 6, 1861

Left Yorktown this morning to meet the enemy, who are reported to be advancing.

10 P. M.—Camped at Bethel Church; enemy reported six miles off. Our guns occupy a good position. The church exhibits many marks of a late visit of the enemy. Scoundrels! They even write blasphemy upon the walls of a house consecrated to God.

SOURCE: William S. White, A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It, p. 95

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