Had a grand review
of all the troops stationed at Yorktown to-day, numbering five or six thousand.
Magruder is a magnificent looking soldier when in full dress uniform.
Stanard's battery,
Third Company, with the New Orleans Zouaves, ordered back to Bethel Church,
left about sun down, and took the road easily, marched eight or nine miles and
camped on the roadside. Nothing has been heard of the enemy since the late
fight. According to their account of the late battle, our one Parrot gun was a
masked battery of forty pieces of rifled artillery.
SOURCE: William S.
White, A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It, p. 100-1
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