Clear -- cold -- rode to hill to see field battle -- visited wounded -- Met
some kind ladies, among the hospitals. Sent off 26 of our wounded
to Washington -- Burnside says -- withdrawal of Army was effect-
ed without loss of men or guns or stores -- without knowledge of
enemy & as military necessity (either to return or fight --
repulse wld. be disasterous -- cld. nt take batteries.
Jackson is Lt. Col. 26 N.J.V.
The Colonel of the 26th New Jersey was Andrew Jackson Morrison (1828-1907) eventually dismissed from the Army by Philip Sheridan for habitual drunkeness.
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