Burks. Here we found two or more other regiments. The firing of to Jesse S. Burks, March 26, 1862

Bivouac near Woodstock, Shenandoah Oo., Va., March 26, 1862.

Sie: In obedience to an order received from Col. Jesse S. Burks, commanding the Third Brigade, I have the honor to transmit to you, for his information, a report of the operations of the First Virginia Battalion, Provisional Army Confederate States, under my command, on the 23d instant, after it was separated from the rest of the brigade.

At 3 o’clock in the evening the battalion was ordered to support Captain Carpenter’s battery of artillery, and accordingly followed that battery from the position then occupied by the brigade to a point about a quarter of a mile to the left and front. Here the battery halted and opened fire upon a battery of the enemy directly in front of it, which also maintained quite a rapid fire of shot and shell. The firing was kept up on both sides about an hour. Many shell exploded to the rear and on the flanks of the battalion, but none of them did any injury.

TA 4.30 o’clock the battalion proceeded,

by order of Major Pendleton,

about half a mile to the left and front, across an open field, to a hollow

in rear of the position occupied by McLaughlin’s battery of artillery,

for the purpose, as Major Pendleton stated, of reporting to Colonel shot and shell continued, and many of the enemy’s shell burst near us,

but without effect.

About 5 o’clock we heard a discharge of musketry a short distance

jn front of us. I sent Lieut. Oscar White, acting adjutant of the bat-