Mustered for two
months' pay. Started from Potomac Creek at half-past one P.M., with eight days'
rations. Each off-horse had a bag of grain on his back. We marched to Hartwood
Church, and went into camp at six P.M., having marched eight miles.
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. 274
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