EDINBURG, Va., April 5. – The enemy attempted to retard the
operations of our bridge builders, but we shelled them off. One of the enemy’s videttes was killed 600
yards distant, by a sharp shooter of the Wisconsin 3d. The enemy are encamped near Mount Jackson.
The positions occupied by our advanced batteries, commanding
all elevations beyond Stony Creek, were selected by Gen. Banks on Tuesday amid
the hottest fire of the enemy. Jackson’s
force is principally composed of impressed men, who refused to fight against
us. Those from Page and Rockingham
counties retired to a point between these two counties and there entrenched
themselves, defying Jackson’s attempts to compel them to join him.
– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 4
