The battery was
inspected in the forenoon, and began to drill for the first time since we
crossed the river. Mrs. J. C. Johnson of Boston sent the battery a case of knit
jackets, one for each man,—one hundred and fifty in all. These jackets cost two
dollars apiece in Boston.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second
Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters and the Third Light
Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 271
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