Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 19, page 180 with photograph and newspaper clipping, continued, May 4, 1862

Newspaper clipping written by Gunn for the New York Tribune, regarding the aftermath of the evacuation of Yorktown by Confederate forces. Transcription: 159 Yorktown. newspaper clipping continued punish ment for my curiosity. I have seen shot, shell, and canister, piles of boxes of ammunition, and infinitely more of all sorts of things than I shall find leisure to relate, this afternoon, sitting on a door-step to which I have descended from my Court-House elevation. I will try, however, to jot down some of them. Yorktown is not a considerable place; old-fashioned, of course, comprising about thirty houses, not one of which looks as if it had been built during the last fifty years. It stands on an elevated site, a road winding beneath its river side, where lie the water batteries, laid out at right angles, the houses apart from one another, with trees about them, it resembles an English village gone to decay. These houses furnished quarters for the Rebel officers; the men being lodged under canvas, or in huts of their own or negroes' construction. They have abandoned all of them; only half a dozen colored people being left in the place. The position is really very strong, the ear

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