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33rd Mass Letter

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Autograph Letter Signed by George H. Clark, Company I, 33rd Massachusetts Infantry, 4p. octavo, pencil, June 15, 1863, Centerville, Virginia, and reds in part: "...we received orders to march immediately with empty knapsacks, one blankets and three days rations...we marched all night & the greater part of the next day making forty miles in less than 24 hours arriving at Beale’s Station on the Orange & Alexandria R.R. and about nine miles from teh Rappahannock...There we were joined by three other regts....MOnday we were supplied with six days more rations...marched to the river at Beverly Ford, crossed and had a brush with the rebs, the particulars of which you have seen in the papers...Our Reg Cavy for sometime supporting a battery on this side the river and watching the fight, it was an exciting spectacle, but I have no time to give particulars now...We took a position on the left of the line to support a battery which was engaged. We lay flat on the ground the enemy’s shell bursting over among & all around us, but without hitting a man...The rebs found their position too hot for them and fell back. Our batty followed and the right wing of our Reg was deployed as skirmishers to prevent a surprise on the left flank, and amused ourselves by exchanging shots with alot of reb sharp shooters who were concealed in a wood, while we covered oursleves as well as we could behind stumps...every time a man on either side showed himself he would get a shower of bullets about his ears that reminded me of a swarm of bees..." More. VG.

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