The centre section,
commanded by Lieutenant Jeffrey Hassard, relieved the section of Battery B, on
picket at Conrad's Ferry. Our detachment accidentally changed its position in
the battery—we were transferred to the centre section, being the fourth piece,
sixth detachment. We arrived at the ferry by one o'clock P. M., and took up our
quarters in a deserted nigger-shanty. Splendid view of the Potomac and Blue
Ridge Mountains. At night, the camp-fires of the rebels were visible.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 29
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