A clear day. The
enemy in great force around Leesburg. We can see the church steeples of that
place. Skirmishing kept up all day. In the evening our battery received orders
to embark and cross the river,—Capt. Tompkins, having come back from Harper's
Ferry, with the right section, the evening before,—three guns were already
loaded on a canal boat, together with Company C, First Maryland Regiment, and
started; but the current of the stream being too strong, and losing half of the
oars, they had to return again. Orders awaited us already to disembark
immediately, and return to camp. All the troops withdrew from the Virginia
shore before daylight, eight thousand men in all.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 25-6
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