After returning from a
battery drill, orders awaited our section, in command of Lieut. J. A. Tompkins.
We left Darnestown at five o'clock P. M., going at a fast rate towards Great
Falls, a distance of ten miles. At our arrival we found the Seventh
Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Col. Harvey. During the day the enemy had
some pieces of artillery in position, to bear on the water-works at Great
Falls, and on the Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, firing a hundred rounds.
Only one man was wounded. Col. Harvey guided our battery through the woods at
midnight. Our section took position on the edge of a knoll, while the Seventh
fortified our guns. It rained during the night.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 19
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