April fool's day; but we have had no time to celebrate, for early in the
day we were orderd to build a traverse. There has been cannonading all the
afternoon between the gunboats and the battery down the river.
SOURCE: John Jasper Wyeth, Leaves from a Diary Written While
Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass. Dep’t of North Carolina from September 1862 to June
1863, p. 45
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