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The reason that this regiment lost no more is that
we were most of hte time deployed as skirmishers
and not formed
in line of battle
7 killed 84 wounded
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Headquarters First regt Mass. Vols.
Williamsburg Va, May 10th 62
Dear Brother
as I suppose that you
would like to hear something about
Monday's fight, I will try to trot you
[?] a line or two, I received your
letter with the stamps, and am very
much obliged to you, now for the
battle, we left camp Scott about
noon Sunday and matched till about
9 O'clock that evening a distance of
some ten miles, and camped for
the night pretty tired as we had
been on picket for twenty four hours, before
Starting about four Monday morning
we formed line and again took up
our march, but the roads being
in a very poor condition, on account
of the rain, which was then falling,
we proceeded very slowly, at about 7
the rebels appeared in sight, but a little