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� 119 May [April stricken] 4, 1862 Sunday Ship Point
This morning as I was quietly reading the Bible, Lieut H. my brother aide comes rushing in with the exclamation, "Yorktown has been evacuated and our division embarks at once."
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All was hurry and confusion throughout all of yesterday. At night we ran out into the bay and this morning early we sailed for Yorktown. Before sitting down to breakfast we were anchored beneath the frowning but deserted batteries of the rebels on the one side Gloucester, on the other Yorktown.
The severe storm could not prevent us from desiring to