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York Town VA April 7th 1862
Dear Brother Albro
As I have a few leisure
moments now I will try and write you a letter and
let you know my whereabouts I thought you would
be anxious to know we are at York yet but expect to move
evry hour the rebs run off Saturday leaving their guns
and amunition and tents Saturday Sunday morning our cavalry
and light artillery went in persuit and overtook their
rear guard about noon and captured some of them and
brought the back here Monday they had a battle
where our troops gained a compleet victory and took some
prisoners Sunday morning I [in?] our picket lines and went into
york with our advance regaments and I went all
through the enemys works there was a number of our men killed
by the bursting of shells that the rebs had planted under
the g surface of the ground I helped dig out some of them
they had a torpedo in the fuse so when they were stepped