| | 1 | Author: | Brand, William F. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Brand to Kate Armentrout, May 29, 1862  | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | I recieved your kind letter some time ago I suppose
you think I have forgotten you entirely as I have been so long in answering your
letter. Indeed we have hardly had time to wash our cloths for the past two months. You seemed to think when you wrote to me
last that the Valley was almost gon but thanks to
Almighty God we have been able to drive them out thare
is some in Harpers ferry yet we attacked them on the 23rd & have been
fighting less or more evry day since. We have entirely
routed Banke Army. I think that we have taken about 3
thousand Prisoners all thare
Bagage & governmint stores our Brigade was ordered to Charlestown yesterday. We
left Winchester early in the morning & marched eighteen miles by the
middle of the day the enimy
ware drawn up in line of battle & opened fire on
our skirmishers we run up four or five pieces of artilery & fired on them. Thay fired
five times & commenced retreating throwing of
thare
blanketts canteens & hapersacks. We run them for four or five miles the boys say we run
them into thare den in the ferry. We captured fifteen
prisoners thay fired some large guns this morning. We
could see the smoke thay seemed to be on the Virginia
hights & the hills of Boliven. I exspect we will we will march on them this evening as
two more brigads came down this morning. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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