visible, a hungry terrier is in our house, saw
rebel prisoner. we lost 4. (5) men fro. Co. F. pickets --
Lt. Beck Co. A skedaddled it is sd. night before
bombardment. I saw our armorer with his sword
picked up in woods near our camp -- I record
With devout gratitude the safety of the regt. & myself --
thus far. "In every thing -- with prayer" &c -- is a text that
has sustained me. I read & prayed with the
Officers in our house last eveg. remembering the
poor family whose peaceful home is thus invaded.
Adjt. Force has just brot. in abt. $10. worth tobacco
picked up out of river. Our troops been very much
in want of it heretofore. Now abundant.
Walked out, troops are plundering houses, several
houses near us, in flames, no effort to extinguish
them. Men are cooking fresh meat & chickens.
talked with a rebel wounded soldier of Missp. --
lying on sofa in Taliaferro Hunters house, Picked ;up
a shell not exploded & put it away in garden
under bushes a hollow poplar is on
& sends out a Column of dense brown smoke
like a chimney, very strikg. Conversed with a citizen who
had staid in his cellar & escaped unhurt, tho. the gable
end of his house was blown out by a shell. Men are
regaling themselves on best the City affords, lying
on mattresses on side walk reading London quarterly
& Capt. Stevens walks down steps with a parasol
& spectacles minus glasses -- But alas if rebel
batteries open how changed the scene, strange
they do not -- saw a colored print of Richmond
on a gate or fence -- boys sd. they had taken Richmond.
F. is fine old fashioned city about 5000 inhabi-
tants. The house we stay in is a northern womans
school teacher -- I just put out a Ger. soldier who
was climbing into side window for plunder.
A soldier is now cookg. a short-cake.
Captain Philetus A. Stevens, Co. A, 25th New Jersey
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