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The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Affairs at Jamestown — the recent battle, &c. Jamestown Batteries, June 13, 1861. In compliance with your invitation to send you the news, I nibble my pen in order to get together a few ideas, if possible. Unfortunately, in a wooden shanty like the one in which I write, tormented by flies by day and mosquitoes by night, my ideas are very much like raw recruits. There is no use in telling them to keep step, preserve their distances, or keep silence in ranks. They wont hold up their heads or pay attention until I am nearly driven mad by their abominable confusion. Our companies in high spirits at the news of the attack and defer it of the enemy at Bethel Church. As yet we cannot know the number of the killed and wounded, but we are sure that our men did their duty bravely. The guns were heard here several times during the day, and when the boat arrived with dispatches and gave us first the news, no description could be written