Diary of Private Bartlett Yancey Malone: May 5, 1862

a very raney one indeed and we was rousted up about 2 oclock in the night and marched all day threw the mud and water and at night we arived in about 2 miles of West Point

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 19