Monday, September 2, 2024

Diary of Private Bartlett Yancey Malone: May 6, 1862

we stade in camp untell about one oclock And it was reported that the Yankees was alanding down at West Point and we was all run out in a file and plast in a line of battel expecting a fight but did not and about dark we marched back to our camp and about 8 oclock in the night we marched about a mile to another plase for sum cause and then stade thar all night And the next morning

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 19

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