Arrived at Edwards
Ferry by six o'clock A. M. Two thousand men were already landed on the Virginia
shore, opposite the ferry, others were continually crossing on canal boats.
Since daylight, rain fell incessantly. On the Virginia side, skirmishing was
going on all day. At five o'clock both lines of battle advanced. brisk fight
commenced. Two brass howitzers of Rickett's battery, First United States
Artillery, did good execution, being in position on the Virginia shore. While
the fight continued, the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania, Col. Geary, the Twenty-ninth,
Col. Mury, and Van Allen's cavalry, were sent as reinforcements across the
Potomac. Fighting ceased an hour afterwards. Capt. Vaughan went to the enemy's
lines, under a flag of truce, to see about some of his wounded men in the hands
of the rebels. Gen. McClellan arrived at night.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 25
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