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Camp 7th N.Y. Indp. Battery
Manchester Va June 29th 1865

Mr M. Intyre
1st Lt and A.A.A.G.

Sir 
In compliance with endorsements on enclosed complaint of outrage and robbery, said to have been committed on the person and property of Mrs Eagen, I have the honor to report the following statement of facts.

On the 8th of April I was ordered to furnish a detail of teams and drivers, to report to Maj Cook for the First Conn Heavy Art'y, for the purpose of hauling guns, from Fort Drewry to Bermuda Hundred Defences, at which place, we were then stationed.  The detail was commanded by Maj Cook in person, and accompanied by three other officers of the same Regt:  while the horses were feeding in the Fort, some of my men straggled off, and found men belonging to the Navy, and men of the First Conn Regt, plundering a log house; it seemed to be a Rebel Commissary

Transcription Notes:
7th Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery. The Bermuda Hundred Campaign was one of three campaigns launched to support Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign by tying down Confederate troops in other sectors. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-31 15:24:58