At 4 A. M. moved out on Sussex C. H. road and camped 8 miles
from Petersburg. In evening drew rations and forage. In P. M. awful connonading
and musketry, the most terrific we have yet heard. Already last night we held
all but the inner line of works. Captured 22 guns and many prisoners. Report that
the blacks captured one fort with 4 guns, and killed all the garrison.
Yesterday was almost sick, am better today, but weak. Awful bad water for a few
days. Oh the anxiety to know the result of the fighting today. God grant us
success.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman
Harris Tenney, p. 120
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