A Dinwiddie trooper
was shot to-day by a Georgian, through mistake, wounded slightly. Sent a
howitzer with mounted men and a strong guard of cavalry to New Market Bridge,
near Hampton, to reconnoitre. Saw a small body of the enemy, but too far off to
get a shot at them. The enemy, under cover of a flag of truce, sent for the
bodies of Major Winthrop and Lieutenant Greble, who fell in the battle of
Bethel. The body of the former was found, and of course their request granted,
but the body of the latter could not be found.
SOURCE: William S.
White, A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It, p. 101
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