Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, May 5, 1863

In the afternoon, at five o'clock, it began to rain. Threw up earthworks for our guns. Started at night, and recrossed the river at United States Ford, and marched to our old camp at Potomac Creek. Reached there at eight in the morning, that being the third time we had returned to our old camp. Remained in camp, having the usual duties to perform, till May 15.

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