Arrived at Sandy
Hook by two o'clock P. M. Relieved the First Battery, the pieces being turned
over to us. They started for home in the evening. Our camp is one mile from
Weavertown. The right section under Lieut. Vaughan, took position on Maryland
Heights, which command Loudon Heights and Harper's Ferry. Gen. Banks is in
command of this department. From this time, up to the thirteenth of August,
nothing exciting occurred. Battery drill in the morning and the manual of the
piece in the afternoon. Extremely hot weather during daytime. Capt. Reynolds
went home on a furlough.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 16
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