To Capt JE Jacobs From Maj M Kerwin June 18 1863

              Head Quarters 13th Pa. Cav. 
                                Near Maryland Heights, Md. 
                                                  June 18th, 1863 
   Capt. J. E. Jacobs 
	A. A. G. 1st Brig. 2nd Div. 8th A. C. 
					Captain, 
				On  
Saturday June 13th, 1863 about 8 o’clock a.m. the  
regt. was ordered under arms, and at 8 ½ a.m. moved  
out on the Strausburg Road, after marching about 1 ½  
miles in the direction of Strausburg, the regt. was ordered  
on the left flank about ½ mile from the road from the road. The  
regt. began to skirmish with the enemy about 10 a.m.  
which resulted in the wounding of one horse in the breast. 
We held our position until the enemy began to shell us; when  
the regt. changed position to the right of the Strausburg Road,  
west and in front of the mill on the Strausburg Road. As  
the rebels advanced in force, we gradually situated  
to the mill with one man and two horses wounded  
by pieces of shell.  At or near 5 p.m. we changed  
position and formed near the burial grounds on the  
west of the town, at or near 11 p.m. we changed our  
position and in compliance to orders formed  
on the right of the Pughtown Road, west of the  
fortification, we remained in that position until  
daylight of June 14th, 1863.  At or near 4 a.m.