Some men of the
First Minnesota, and Corporal Butler, of our battery, took possession of
Gregg's printing office, of "The Berryville Observator," and
published quite a number of copies of said paper. News of McClellan's
occupation of Manassas arrived, in consequence of which, a salute of forty guns
was fired. In the evening, when Captain Tompkins rode into camp, the assembly
was blown at once, and he addressed the men as follows: "Boys, a fight is
going on at Winchester, and this battery must be there within twenty-five
minutes." Camp was struck, and the battery on the road, when the order was
countermanded.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 35
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