Sunday, August 10, 2025

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, May 2, 1863

Started out at eight A.M., Marched down, and went into battery on the banks of the Rappahannock, behind a line of rifle-pits. Firing, at intervals, all day, and heavy firing during the night.

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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