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William Elmer Thorp correspondence, 1846-1868

1861-07-24 William E. Thorpe to James M. Coveney Page 5

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5 we got licked so bad although we only had 45,000 men according to the best accounts I can get while the enemy had about 80,000 at the least. But I will return to my going out on the picket guard about 8 O clock on Monday it commenced to rain and it kept raining untill about midnight on Monday night but about 11 or 1/2 past eleven we got orders for our regiment to send out two companies of picket guards and companies C and D were chosen by the colonell for that purpose so we got ready each man taking his overcoat Blanket Haversack canteen two days rations & of course his gun cartridge box &c and started although the
 
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