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� 140 May. After dinner we were very quietly chatting among ourselves when the Major commanding Cavalry and his Adjutant came gallopping up and exclaiming that the enemy had ap-peared and are about to cross the bridge in force. This of course startled us all. But it proved to be only a stampede of the worst sort in which I played a very prominent part)
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Today Genl. Slocum went out in company with aforce of cavalry and examined Meadow bridge.
This evening it is to be burnt. Today we have had poetry, and I have struck a vein with Wilson, who is a good fellow.