We went from here to Mechanicsville, where the heavy fighting was done the evening before.
The road from Mechanicsville to New Bridge crossed the creek at that point.
Before midnight one of General Morell's orderlies had passed me through our cavalry pickets beyond Mechanicsville.
It was after dark when we were ordered into camp somewhere between Mechanicsville and Atlee's Station.
It was plainly mortal—but he was hastily driven, by way of Mechanicsville, into Richmond.
