Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone: May 31, 1862

And the next morning which was the 30 we left and marched down toward Chickahominy And about three oclock in the eavning we was led in to the Battel field by Colonel Pender And we had a wright nice time of it from then tell dark

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 20