Rienzi. We were
aroused this morning with the same story of march and ordered to cook three
days' rations and be ready to march at 1 P. M., but did not go and all quieted
down again. The 3rd Section went out in the afternoon and stationed itself at
bastion No. 5 at 9 P. M. Dispatches were brought around to the effect that McClellan
had captured the rebel army of Virginia including General Lee. Nothing could
induce us to restrain our joy but the fear of its being false.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 5-6
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