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22 -ing to Va. A heavy rain now set in and we stood around in wet clothing until the next evening about five oclock when Co. I of our Regt. had orders to skirmish through a woods. When they were right at the edge of the woods the enemy opened on them very suddenly from only a few paces distant. There being an entire line of battle of rebels in the woods the company retreated as fast as possible. Then a company of shart shooters opened on the enemy they having pursued back out on to the open ground. Besides this a section of Pickets Battery opened on them and they were quickly repulsed. One of Co. I was wounded and brought to the rear another was shot and left. The more than brutal traitors bayonetted the wounded man. *

• This was corporal Mitchel. The story is told in one of Gordon's poems.