Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 19, page 199 photographs and newspaper clipping, May 8, 1862

Newspaper clipping written by Gunn for the New York Tribune, regarding the aftermath of the Battle of Williamsburgh. Transcription: 173 Battle of Williamsburg. photograph General Edwin V. Sumner. photograph Col. Stephen A. Dodge of the 87th New York. newspaper clipping ABANDONED HOUSE IN WILLIAMSBURG, Va.,} Night of May 8, 1862.} I know that abler pens than mine have told in your columns the consecutive story of the bloody fight before Williamsburg; let me, then, confine myself to what I saw of the battle-field and subsequently. If I cannot offer many particulars of the disposition of the regiments engaged, I may, at least, paint the scene of a glorious by dreadful event which can never be effaced from my memory. I might have been present toward the end of it but for a very common mischance here (Gen. Sumner experienced the same, when graver results depended on his movements)—missing my road. I had ridden from Yorktown through the tremendous rain which heightened the misery of the day, passing the Prince de Joinville, who, apprehensive of the result of the fight, was spurring toward Gen. McClellan's old headquarters, three miles beyond Yorktown, for re-enforcements, and

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1862

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