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Sewell Van Alstine diary, 1863-1864
1864-04-23 -- 1864-04-25
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71 (Added note at head of page:-) [?] in the morning heavy cannonading ahead, Banks engaged with the enemy at his crossing -enced shelling us in the night, skirmishing began at daylight, 24th shelling continued by the rebs, our forces formed at 6. Am, advanced within musket range & opened fire briskly upon them with our brigade & 8 pieces of artillery, which soon made it to hot for them, & silenced & set them running, one man of our co. K was shot dead by one of our own men in the rear rank, Anson Perkins, killed by S.N.Brown very carelessly, some of our brigade killed & wounded also som of the battery, have not yet learnt the loss, it is reported the enemy suffered, severely moved out at Am crossed Cave river on Banks pontoon at 11 Am, saw Gen Banks, arrive at Cotile landing at 10 Pm, distance made to day 24 miles, weather so far has been favorable for marching, dry cool & airy nights uncomfortably cool for sleeping out, 25th started out at 10 Am, rebs firing in our rear, took the Bayau road to Alexandria moved on a few miles were fired upon from the opposite side of the Bayau, we were put in line of battle, but were soon ordered
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71 (Added note at head of page:-) [?] in the morning heavy cannonading ahead, Banks engaged with the enemy at his crossing -enced shelling us in the night, skirmishing began at daylight, 24th shelling continued by the rebs, our forces formed at 6. Am, advanced within musket range & opened fire briskly upon them with our brigade & 8 pieces of artillery, which soon made it to hot for them, & silenced & set them running, one man of our co. K was shot dead by one of our own men in the rear rank, Anson Perkins, killed by S.N.Brown very carelessly, some of our brigade killed & wounded also som of the battery, have not yet learnt the loss, it is reported the enemy suffered, severely moved out at Am crossed Cave river on Banks pontoon at 11 Am, saw Gen Banks, arrive at Cotile landing at 10 Pm, distance made to day 24 miles, weather so far has been favorable for marching, dry cool & airy nights uncomfortably cool for sleeping out, 25th started out at 10 Am, rebs firing in our rear, took the Bayau road to Alexandria moved on a few miles were fired upon from the opposite side of the Bayau, we were put in line of battle, but were soon ordered
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