Tuesday, June 7th.
There was a good deal of desultory musketry last night, but the day was quiet, each side apparently watching the other. A flag of truce was sent out and the body of Col. McMahon, of the 164th N. Y., among others killed on the 3rd, was recovered. His features were not recognizable, his pockets were rifled and the buttons were cut from his uniform.
by John Beauchamp Jones
JUNE 7TH.—Rained in the night, clear and cool in the morning. Gen. Breckinridge’s division started toward the Valley early this morning.
All is quiet near the city ; but firing has been heard in the direction of Bottom’s Bridge.
A man from New Kent County, coming through the lines, reports that Gen. Grant was quite drunk yesterday, and said he would try Lee once more, and if he failed to defeat him, “the Confederacy might go to hell.” It must have been some other general.
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