Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 19, page 154 with photograph and newspaper clipping, continued, April 23, 1862

Newspaper clipping written by Gunn for the New York Tribune, regarding a visit to Farnhold's House. Transcription: 139 "Farenhold's." photograph Farenhold's House, on the York River, with part of Federal Battery, No 1. newspaper clipping continued pic turesque creek or stream with steep banks, beyond which we could see the white tents of our troops (where are they not on this peninsula, I wonder?) in relief against the wet, green foliage. Further on, at the verge of the fields, the shot and shell and cannon piled there reminded one of a navy yard. Behind, all was flat, open country, stretching away to the York River. Under the fickle April sky, with a huge slate-colored cloud growing darker every minute on the western horizon, and "looking like a foul bombard that would shed its liquor," the prospect was cheerless enough. The earth seemed drenched; at every step through the swampy fields our horses plashed fetlock deep in water. The fences were broken or removed for firewood; the corn-stalks rotten; great and small pools lay here and there and everywhere. I observed that only about half an acre of land had been plowed. Straight across this dreary land-and-water-scape, the road

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