Received orders for
two howitzers with twenty-five picked men, mounted, to report to
Lieutenant-Colonel Chas. Dreux, commanding the First Louisiana Battalion. Left
Yorktown with an infantry force of some two thousand men and marched within six
miles of Bethel Church. It is reported the enemy intend landing a large force
on the Poquosin River, and we are acting as a small corps of observation.
Magruder joined us a short while since.
SOURCE: William S.
White, A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It, p. 103
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