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Yorktown, June 11th 1861
My Darling wife:
Thank God we have
met and conqurnd the enemy and
none of us killed. I hasten to write
before you hear any rumors.
As you know I have been down
near Hampton & Newport News
for a week past. In the last
few days we were reinforced
by Stanards Battery with Major
Randolph and about 1100 infantry
On yesterday morning we got in
telligence of the enemy's approach
and unfortunately three of our
pieces and all the infantry
were out scouting. They got in
to the camp in time however and
we got to work about 9:15 and
fought with varying success
until 1:30 to 2: once I thought