Orders to march at 4 o'clock. Got up in time for breakfast.
Today our forces seem to abandon Brandy Station, and the railroad. Most of the army
across the Rapidan and Germania Ford. Reached the ford with 300 cattle at 10. Four
companies reported to Gen. Wilcox. Infantry crossing all day, 9th Corps. A very
warm day. Dusty roads, faces all crisped. Rapidan a narrow rocky bottom, high
banks, rapid stream. Rappahannock narrow and less rapid. Went into camp about a
mile from the river, rode out Pike to our pickets. Rebel pickets in sight. Very
heavy firing on the left in the 6th Sedgwicks Corps. Quite heavy loss. Rumor
that Butler was in Petersburg and Thomas fighting at Dalton. (Beginning of Grant's
attack on Lee and the Campaign of the Wilderness.)
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney,
p. 114-5
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