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7-6-1862 p1.
\nJuly 6th, 1962 [Sunday]. Camp near James River.
\nMy Dear Father:
\n\tSince I last wrote I have seen some of the most fatiguing and exciting time that I have ever experienced in my life \u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013.
\nThe 26th of June we moved camp, expecting to cross over the River and fight our way to Richmond. We marched to within a few hundred yards of the River and bivouacked for the night in a field. All the evening and a greater part of the night we could hear cannonading in our front and on our extreme right. Well, I got my overcoat and went to sleep and slept until about 3 o\u2019clock. Then we were formed up and marched back on the same road. We were all taken completely by surprise and didn\u2019t know what to make of the movement until we were checked back a couple of miles and formed in line of battle; then we were informed that Jackson, with his whole army amounting to nearly eighty thousand of the very best Confederate troops, was trying to outflank us on the right and that General McClellan had determined to turn his right wing and make the James River the base of operations instead of the Panmunky.
\n\tWe retreated, I suppose, about five miles where then (the men) retired of our knapsacks. At about ten o\u2019clock we were formed in line of battle and about 11 the ball opened with artillery. The way the Rebel shells flew around, well to say the least of it, it was very unhealthy. The shells they fired fell and exploded right in the 2nd Infantry and killed one man dead and wounded two <\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":2341,"height":3733,"file":"7-6-1862-p1.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"7-6-1862-p1-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-6-1862-p1-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"7-6-1862-p1-188x300.jpg","width":188,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-6-1862-p1-188x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"7-6-1862-p1-768x1225.jpg","width":768,"height":1225,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-6-1862-p1-768x1225.jpg"},"large":{"file":"7-6-1862-p1-1254x2000.jpg","width":1254,"height":2000,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-6-1862-p1-1254x2000.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"7-6-1862-p1-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-6-1862-p1-300x300.jpg"},"post_thumbnail":{"file":"7-6-1862-p1-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-6-1862-p1-150x150.jpg"},"single-post-thumbnail":{"file":"7-6-1862-p1-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-6-1862-p1-150x150.jpg"},"home-post-thumbnail":{"file":"7-6-1862-p1-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-6-1862-p1-200x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"7-6-1862-p1.jpg","width":2341,"height":3733,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-6-1862-p1.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-6-1862-p1.jpg","filename":"7-6-1862-p1.jpg","filesize":3950094,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8544"}]}}