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5-7-1863 p2-3. of the enemy and went to bed on one blanket for the first time in thirty-six hours. After we had been in camp about two hours, the other Company of the 10th with our flag and band now in our whole Regiment presently consisting of nine Companies and the band.
\n\tThe next morning the 1st of May we were relieved of Provost Duty and were ordered to report for duty to 2nd Brigade. We hadn\u2019t been in the Brigade on hour before we were ordered to move. We hadn\u2019t marched a mile before we were attacked by the enemy\u2019s picketts but we drove them back about two miles. Killed about fifty and with nearly the same number prisoners. The tenth took twenty seven prisoners and killed eight. But after we drove them back, they brought up reinforcements and drove us back and we had to retreat for the want of reinforcements. We were turned back to where we started from in the morning but the enemy did not follow us near our camp.
\n\tI had command of a Company of sixteen men out of which I lost four, just \u00bc. After dark we fell back about \u00bd mile and the 10th went on Pickett duty. We were on Pickett until the morning of the 3rd when we again fell back about one mile and entrenched ourselves on a crest of hills. We lay behind our works until yesterday morning when we retreated across the river and afterwards were back to this our old winter camp. I think the whole move was caused by the cowardly Dutchman (XI Corps) belonging to Sykes\u2019 old Corps who allowed themselves to be surprised and a lot of them were taken prisoners. I hope we will hang them.
\n\tI am in Camp now. I have no idea how long we will stay or anything about it.
\n\tI wish you would write oftener.
\n\tGive my love to all. Your son, Wm. J. Fisher. <\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":4772,"height":2971,"file":"5-7-1863-p2-3.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"5-7-1863-p2-3-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-7-1863-p2-3-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"5-7-1863-p2-3-300x187.jpg","width":300,"height":187,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-7-1863-p2-3-300x187.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"5-7-1863-p2-3-768x478.jpg","width":768,"height":478,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-7-1863-p2-3-768x478.jpg"},"large":{"file":"5-7-1863-p2-3-2000x1245.jpg","width":2000,"height":1245,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-7-1863-p2-3-2000x1245.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"5-7-1863-p2-3-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-7-1863-p2-3-300x300.jpg"},"post_thumbnail":{"file":"5-7-1863-p2-3-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-7-1863-p2-3-150x150.jpg"},"single-post-thumbnail":{"file":"5-7-1863-p2-3-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-7-1863-p2-3-150x150.jpg"},"home-post-thumbnail":{"file":"5-7-1863-p2-3-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-7-1863-p2-3-200x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"5-7-1863-p2-3.jpg","width":4772,"height":2971,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-7-1863-p2-3.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\/5-7-1863-p2-3.jpg","filename":"5-7-1863-p2-3.jpg","filesize":4712859,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8602","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=8602"}]}}