Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone: December 13, 1862

we was marched back to the wright and laid in a line of battel all day under the Yankees shells but non of ous got hurt     And that nite we was sent to the front on picket and laid clost to the enemey all nite 

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 26