we lade ther in the
field all night with our guns by our side And next morning we marched out in
the woods And we stade ther untell about 2 o'clock in the night And then we was
rousted up and marched about a half a mile and then for sume cause we was stopt
and sent back And then about daybreak we started again and taken the same road
back that we come down And about 12 oclock we got to Williamsburg and we onley
went about 4 miles futher tell we stopt to stay all night And about 4 oclock in
the eavning the Yankees Calvery overtaken ours clost to Williamsburg and we had
a little brush but our men whipt thirs and we onley lost one kild and 3 or 4
wounded And we kild 9 of thirs and wounded severl and taken 10 horses
SOURCE: Bartlett
Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 19
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