Battle of Ball's
Bluff. Gen. Stone crossed the Potomac near Conrad's Ferry, across Harrison's
Island, with Col. Baker's brigade, this morning. (Forty-second New York,
Fifteenth and Twentieth Massachusetts Regiments, and a piece of artillery, of
Capt. Vaughan's battery. The rest of the battery stayed on Harrison Island.) By
seven o'clock in the evening, the whole division of Gen. Banks left Darnestown,
going to Edwards Ferry. Our battery started about nine o'clock. Arriving at
Poolesville, we heard of the disastrous result. Our troops had withdrawn from
Ball's Bluff. Col. Baker's corpse was brought into town.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 24-5
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