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during the evening of the 6th and
we went into camp, and spent
a most delightful night. Early in
the morning of the 7th May, we were
up again, we resumed the march,
not toward Richmond as all
expected, but towards West Pt.
We marched but a short distance,
where we were halted. The 5th Txs
was sent out on a reconasance.
We had gone but a half mile,
when we came back to the posi
-tion in a hurry, having fallen in
-to a Yankee trap, but the spring
being rusty, did not work
quick enough to ketch us.
On returning to the place where
we had left the rest of the "Brig"
we found them gone. A corn