. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . about the camp that our armshave met with a severe reverse at Manassas Junction—thatthe Eighth and the Sixty-ninth have been badly cut up. Ifthis is true or merely a hoax, the mail to-night will tell us. TheOrderly is just Falling-in the Company, and I must laydown the pen. Tuesday, July have seen the Tribune of the Twentieth, according towhich our troops lost some thousand men in an attempt totake the batteries at Bull Run; but rumor says there is a laterpaper contradicting this statement, but I
. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . about the camp that our armshave met with a severe reverse at Manassas Junction—thatthe Eighth and the Sixty-ninth have been badly cut up. Ifthis is true or merely a hoax, the mail to-night will tell us. TheOrderly is just Falling-in the Company, and I must laydown the pen. Tuesday, July have seen the Tribune of the Twentieth, according towhich our troops lost some thousand men in an attempt totake the batteries at Bull Run; but rumor says there is a laterpaper contradicting this statement, but I have not seen going through the evolution of the brigade drill underColonel Phelps yesterday, we heard some sharp firing, whichcould have been only four or five miles from here. Alternatingbetween Company fire and Fire by file, from the rapidvolleys it seemed as if sharp work was going on was also an occasional report of artillery. Our officersare determined to be ready for anything, for at Retreat, car-tridges were distributed among the men, and our Company32. £?•?: /-,
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