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of Williamsburg, where the angel
faces of the young Virginia girls,
the sorrow and gloom depicted on
the faces of old and young made
us blush to think that Southern chiv
-alry, was fleeing from a [i?ing] [?]
but our country demanded the sac
-rifice, and we obeyed. We camped
that night three miles from Williams
burg. We understood during the
next day, that at early dawn of
May 5th the Yanks, attacked our
forces and till 3 pm quite a heavy
fight was carried on, in which
we whiped the enemy inflicting
a loss of some five to six thousand.
Loosing heavily ourselves, some
{2800?], in all. The enemy thus re