Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone: June 1, 1862

The fight comenced a little before the sun rose And we was plast (placed) in a line of Battel And was expecting to go in to it evry minuet but we staid there all day and was not cauld on; General Longstreet divishion don the most of the fighting on Sunday And from that time till the 11th we stade in the Swamp down on Chickahominy River

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 20-1

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