Considerable picket
firing. Captain Owen opened with his twenty-pound Parrott guns, from Edwards
Ferry, on Fort Beauregard. Kept up firing for an hour. Four negroes crossed the
river, bringing two horses along. Owen's Battery opened a second time in the
afternoon.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery,
p. 32
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